Satrangee Parachute Movie Reviews

If Iran can have it, why can't India have it too: a viable children's film movement. Why does the world's biggest film industry dish out the saddest kiddie films, week after week? Why can't Bollywood go the Hollywood way and treat children's film as hardcore, high market entertainment? Why must our film makers give the tween and teen film market a step motherly treatment.... Questions that need to be addressed urgently as the young viewers

The storyline may be interesting and hold potential as a drama about a bunch of kids trying to blow up a terrorist plot. But its delineation is so serious, so tedious and so unfunny, it makes us adults fidgety. Can’t imagine what it would do to an audi full of restless kids!

Despite all this, boredom is the feeling that will remain with you throughout the film. Satrangee Parachute will not give you your dose of entertainment this weekend.

We keep harping that we need to make films that cater to not just adults, but also kids. We make films keeping this segment of movie-going audience in mind. We even cast kids in stellar and pivotal parts. But we misfire most of the times. So what are the 'golden rules' that make a perfect, compelling kiddie film? One, the maker ought to opt for a theme that would depict kids as kids, not as super-heroes fighting a battalion of baddies

Siddharth Sanghani lives in Nainital. He runs away from home with his friends and land in Bombay to buy a parachut...