Jhalki (2019)

Original title

झलकी

Directed by

Brahmanand S Siingh

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

16

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A nine-year-old girl searches for her younger brother who has been taken into child slavery. Her quest brings her into contact with a Nobel Peace Prize winning activist working to end child trafficking.

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What happens

Jhalki (transl. Glimpse) is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Brahmanand S. Singh and Tanvi Jain, written by Singh and Prakash Jha and produced by Singh (under Mobius Films), Anand Chavan (under OMG), Vinayak Gawande and Jayesh Parekh. The film is based on the life of Kailash Satyarthi, winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, and his efforts to fight child trafficking and child labour in India. It features Boman Irani as Satyarthi and Aarti Jha as the titular 9-year-old street girl Jhalki, setting out to find her 7-year-old brother amid child slavery. Tannishtha Chatterjee, Divya Dutta and Sanjay Suri star in supporting roles. The trailer of the film was released at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 and the film was released theatrically in India on 14 November 2019. It premiered at national and international film festivals and won various awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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