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JHALKI ... A DIFFERENT CHILDHOOD

JHALKI ... EK AUR BACHPAN

By Brahmanand SIINGH, Tanvi JAIN

Bollywood - Completed 2018

Jhalki ... a different childhood, set in the backdrop of child labour and trafficking, takes you through a bedtime folk story and by the time you wake up, you definitely want to be a part of the revolution.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Bollywood, First film, Social issues
- Countries
- INDIA
- Languages
- HINDI
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 101 mn
- Director(s)
- Brahmanand SIINGH, Tanvi JAIN
- Writer(s)
- Tanvi JAIN, Brahmanand SIINGH, Kamlesh Kunti SINGH
- Cast
- Boman IRANI, Divya DUTTA, Tannishtha CHATTERJEE, Sanjay SURI, Joy SENGUPTA, Aarti JHA, Goraksha SAKPAL
- Producer(s)
- Brahmanand SIINGH (Mobius Films), Annand CHAVAN (OMG)
- Synopsis
- Jhalki … a moving tale of lost Childhood, is a lyrical story of the search of a 9 year-old girl for her 7 year-old brother against the backdrop of bonded child labor in the carpet weaving factories of India.
  
  Like countless other kids from her village, one fine day, her beloved brother is traded-off in a very unlikely situation for the family. A seven year-old kid who was used to fun and freedom in spite of the existing poverty is suddenly thrown into an inhuman world of child labor with no respite from a terminally gloomy, dark and depressing workplace.
  
  Jhalki decides to follow her instincts and not take the trade-off lying down. In the process, she ends up running into obstacles of the system that only aids child labor --- bureaucracy, corruption and exploitation and so on.
  
  Armed with a folk story of a tireless sparrow that gets her lost grain of food back for her children, a never-say-die attitude and an uncanny presence of mind, Jhalki eventually becomes instrumental for a snowballing movement that frees Babu, her brother, along with thousands of other children caught in the vicious trap.