Director: Nila Madhab Panda, Writers: Sanjay Chouhan and Nila Madhab Panda, Actors: Harsh Mayar, Gulshan Grover, Pitobash, Husaan Saad etc.
For most of us who have grown up on feel-good fables of kings and queens, there is no escaping the goodness of I am Kalam. The experience is like watching a fable unfold on screen and inevitably walking out of the theatre contented. Chotu alias Kalam is a poor boy who works at a dhaba, yearns to go to school and make it big in life. He befriends a prince who has the luxury to go to school. Eventually, the king steps in and Chotu is sent to school with the prince. Everybody knows how it will end, there is hardly any surprise element anywhere; yet there is a magic and optimism in fables which we all know from our childhood.
The magic is accentuated by using a variety of...
For most of us who have grown up on feel-good fables of kings and queens, there is no escaping the goodness of I am Kalam. The experience is like watching a fable unfold on screen and inevitably walking out of the theatre contented. Chotu alias Kalam is a poor boy who works at a dhaba, yearns to go to school and make it big in life. He befriends a prince who has the luxury to go to school. Eventually, the king steps in and Chotu is sent to school with the prince. Everybody knows how it will end, there is hardly any surprise element anywhere; yet there is a magic and optimism in fables which we all know from our childhood.
The magic is accentuated by using a variety of...
- 8/5/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Film: 'I Am Kalam'; Cast: Harsh Mayar, Hussan Saad, Pitobash, Gulshan Grover and Beatrice Ordeix; Director: Nila Madab Panda; Rating: ****
The boy is a dreamer. One look at the former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on television and Chotu decides to call himself Kalam. Kalam believes every child has the right to education.
Without the least display of pity or preachiness, debutant director Nila Madab Panda creates a world of infinite hope and minuscule joys for his precocious unlettered but smart protagonist Chotu.
The wispy but firm-handed narration weaves through Chotu's relationships with various characters.
The boy is a dreamer. One look at the former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on television and Chotu decides to call himself Kalam. Kalam believes every child has the right to education.
Without the least display of pity or preachiness, debutant director Nila Madab Panda creates a world of infinite hope and minuscule joys for his precocious unlettered but smart protagonist Chotu.
The wispy but firm-handed narration weaves through Chotu's relationships with various characters.
- 8/4/2011
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
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