OCLC Number: 772451621: Language Note: In Hindi with English subtitles. Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2010. Winner of 58th National Film award (Best child artist) & winner of 18 International awards. A smart kid from a village in Jaiselmar, Rajasthan finds his inspiration in President APJ Abdul Kalam to grow big in life. He works at a small restaurant run by his uncle played surprisingly perfect by Bollywood bad man Gulshan Grover, he befriends with a rich boy of his age and a French tourist lady who help him with many things.
CICFF screens I Am Kalam in Hindi with English subtitles at 10am Tuesday, October 25, at Patio Theater (6008 W Irving Park Rd) and again at 1pm Saturday, October 29, at Facets Multi-Media (1517 W. 2010 7+ 1h 28m Family Comedies. An intelligent boy born into poverty befriends the son of a once noble family and is inspired by the life of India's president to pursue an education. Starring: Gulshan Grover, Harsh Mayar, Pitobash. Watch all you want. Aug 05, 2011 I Am Kalam ( 2010) I Am Kalam. Not Rated 1h 28min Comedy, Drama, Family 5 August 2011 (India) 1:03 Trailer. 1 VIDEO 4 IMAGES. An impoverished boy forms an unlikely and unstable friendship with the lonely son of a nobleman.
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Director: Nila Madhab Panda
Cast: Harsh Mayar, Gulshan Grover, Hussan Saad, Beatrice Ordeix
Rating:***1/2
All little boys who serve you tea at road side dhabas are called Chotu. This is an immutable law of nature. All except one, who has arrived on a screen near you. His name is Kalam. And he is a winner.
This is turning out to be the year when Bollywood has suddenly decided to throw a spotlight on child labour, starting with 'Stanley Ka Dabba', and 'Chillar Party'. Kalam aka Chotu (Mayar) is the little boy-in-rags whom you don't even look at. He is the invisible child who sells plastic knick knacks at traffic lights. He is the one with wilting flowers outside your car window; or the one to turn somersaults; or hold out a bandaged hand with fake blood : anything to make you meet his eyes, to make you open your fat leather wallet, and fling him a few coins : woh phenke huey paise hi udhaata hai. That money could go towards the guy who's pimped him out, or to his mother with a starving infant in her lap.
Kalam comes from a long line of such little fellows, and he grabs our attention with his mile-wide smile which lights up the screen, and his belief in himself. He knows that he's not going to be serving 'khana' and 'chai' to tourists who stop by at the 'dhaba' run by Bhati ( Grover) all his life. He knows that the books that he treasures, and teases out knowledge from, will take him far. Maybe as far as the grand house where the President of India lives : A P J Kalam may not be the 'rashtrapati' now but the impact he's left on little children, and the importance of learning, is clear in the storyline. And in a nifty little gesture that young Kalam makes, by oiling his hair, whipping out a comb, and creating those two distinctive commas on the forehead.
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