Mumbai, August 29: Bollywood actor “Shahid Kapur” along with some other fraternity members was present a week ago at Amole Gupte’s “Aseema-a school for the slum children”.
It was a moving moment for the chocolaty actor who concentrates intensely with issues associated with children and has in fact done a film “Paathshala” on children’s education for his childhood friend Ahmed Khan, and has also done a film “Wah Life Ho To Aisi” with child actors who are physically challenged in some or the other ways.
Shahid was so moved by the filmmaking effort of the children at Aseema that he has now offered them all support and help.
The manager of the school said, “Shahid, was deeply moved. They feel only the truly innocent can make a film as devoid of shrewdness as “Aansoon Bane Moti”. Even the title was elected by the kids themselves.”
The kids from Aseema will be making one film every month from now on.
“The first film was exactly ten minutes twenty seconds long. Now they’re going on to their second. M.E.T College has kindly consented to lend all their editing equipment for the kids. So now the kids at Aseema are the only regular pre-teen and adolescent filmmakers from any part of the world,” added Amole.
Amole Gupte who is deeply affiliated to children’s causes had to recoil before shouting at a child actor in “Kaminey, may be this was because of his love for the kid.
In an interview Shahid stated that children are the future of tomorrow and should therefore be taken care of. They should get education as per their rights.
—Agencies