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Title:
CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD IN CHILDREN’S CINEMA IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR HINDI FILMS

Authors:
Dr. Karuna Sharma

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Dr. Karuna Sharma
Assistant Professor in the School of Media & Communication Studies, Doon University, Dehradun

MLA 8
Sharma, Dr. Karuna. "CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD IN CHILDREN'S CINEMA IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR HINDI FILMS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 6, no. 3, Mar. 2021, pp. 856-870, doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i03.008. Accessed Mar. 2021.
APA 6
Sharma, D. (2021, March). CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD IN CHILDREN'S CINEMA IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR HINDI FILMS. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 6(3), 856-870. doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i03.008
Chicago
Sharma, Dr. Karuna. "CONSTRUCTION OF CHILDHOOD IN CHILDREN'S CINEMA IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FOUR HINDI FILMS." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 6, no. 3 (March 2021), 856-870. Accessed March, 2021. doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i03.008.

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Abstract:
The sphere of children's cinema remains rather unexplored in India despite the presence of a nodal agency like the Children's Films Society, India (CFSI). This speaks volumes about the inadequacy regarding the creative contribution in this very domain. The filmmakers don’t take the required plunge and hence there is a visible dearth of cinema for children. This inadequacy in turn gives rise to other kinds of anomalies, one being the construction of childhood in a certain manner. There are no consequential, sincere and pointed discussions around the limited and restricted ways in which children and childhood are defined.
This paper tries to enlist the various ‘dominant’ traits associated to childhood and to find out if there have been enough efforts in order to break free from the age-old notions and ideas about children. The paper chiefly analyses four films critically and tries to decipher the various meanings related to childhood.

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