CHILDREN PROTAGONISTS OF WORLD CINEMA! 

On this 'Children Day', I am recollecting some important children images from the World Cinema..!

Notable that, great trendsetters films narrated the stories through the.. Eyes of Children!

Rinaldo Smordoni & Franco Interlenghi in Vittorio De Sica's Italian film 'Shoe Shine' (1946).

Ratan Kumar & Baby Naaz in 'RK's Prakash Arora directed our Hindi film 'Boot Polish' (1954).

Subir Banerjee as Apu in our Satyajit Ray's Bengali film 'Pather Panchali' (1955).

Jean-Pierre Leaud in Francois Truffaut's French film 'The 400 Blows' (1959).

Nikolai Burlyaev in Andrei Tarkovsky's Soviet film 'Ivan's Childhood' (1962).

Babak Ahmadpou in Abbas Kiarostami's Iranian film 'Where is the Friend's Home?' (1987).

It's Tribute to all such great child artists!!

- Manoj Kulkarni