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Thanks Maa is a film of genre Drama with Alok Nath

Thanks Maa (2010)

Thanks Maa
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Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating79% 3.9793253.9793253.9793253.9793253.979325

Thanks Maa is a Hindi film, the directorial debut of Irfan Kamal, distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE), India. The film focuses on Child abandonment Issue in India. It has been officially selected to be screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, International Film Festival of India and Palm Springs International Film Festival. The debut child actor Master Shams Patel has also won the Best Child Artist for the film, in the 56th National Film Awards.

Synopsis

A 12-year-old street kid named Municipality, while on the run from the reformatory, finds and saves a two-day-old abandoned child from being prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people he deemed responsible & respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the child's mother himself. Here onwards ensues his struggle in the urban jungle of Mumbai with just four of his friends from the streets - Soda (15), Sursuri (10), Cutting (8), & Dhed-shaana (6).

Actors

Alok Nath

(Warden - Juvenile Center)Rasika Dugal
Raghubir Yadav

(Peon of the Municipality Hospital)Sanjay Mishra

(Yousuf Charasi)Ranvir Shorey

(Mr.Motwani)
And :
Mukta Barve
Barry John
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Rasika Joshi
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