Fifteen children were each asked to watch a Bollywood movie prominently featuring a child character. During the shoot that followed, each child was asked to verbally portray the child character in the movie that s/he had watched, to describe the role and plight of that character within the movie’s narrative.

The edit avoids specific reference to particular movies or particular characters, instead weaving the fifteen interviews into a composite portrait of ‘the child’ within the Bollywood imaginary, as told with the input of fifteen young Mumbaikar cinemagoers.

Von Candice Breitz.