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Director
  
Irfan Kamal

Duration
  

Running time
  
2 hours

Language
  
Hindi

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Release date
  
March 5, 2010 (India)

Country
  
India

Thanks Maa movie poster

Release date
  
March 5, 2010 (2010-03-05)

Writer
  
Irfan Kamal, Vishal Vijay Kumar

Awards
  
National Film Award for Best Child Artist

Music director
  
Ranjit Barot, Wajid Ali, Sajid Ali

Cast
  
Master Shams
(Munsipalty Ghatkopar),
Master Salmaan
(Soda),
Sanjay Mishra
(Yousuf Charasi),
Alok Nath
(Warden - Juvenile Center)

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Tagline
  
Based on 12.66 million true stories

Thanks Maa is a Hindi film, the directorial debut of Irfan Kamal, distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE), India. The film focuses on Child abandonment Issue in India. It has been officially selected to be screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, International Film Festival of India and Palm Springs International Film Festival. The debut child actor Master Shams Patel has also won the Best Child Artist for the film, in the 56th National Film Awards.

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Plot

A 12-year-old street kid named Municipality, while on the run from the reformatory, finds and saves a two-day-old abandoned child from being prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people he deemed responsible & respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the child's mother himself. Here onwards ensues his struggle in the urban jungle of Mumbai with just four of his friends from the streets - Soda (15), Sursuri (10), Cutting (8), & Dhed-shaana (6).

Thanks Maa An Innocent Conviction An Insensitive Society

Municipality's rock steady determination ultimately helps him emerge a winner against all odds as he reaches the child's mother. Though in the bargain, he loses his 'God like' & flawless image of a mother he used to anticipate in his dreams. A mother, who he hoped, would come searching for him someday at the Municipality Hospital, where he was abandoned 12 years back.

Thanks Maa 2009 Filum Chillum

The film ends showcasing some of the real-life issues of abandoned children and the misery they face in their day-to-day lives.

Cast


  • Rasika Dugal
  • Master Shams as Municipality Ghatkopar (W)
  • Master Salman as Soda
  • Master Fayyaz as Cutting
  • Baby Almas as Sursuri
  • Master Jaffer as Dhed-Shaana
  • Baby Sakshi as Krish
  • Alok Nath as Warden of the Reformatory
  • Raghubir Yadav as Peon of the Municipality Hospital
  • Barry John as Priest at the Church
  • Sanjay Mishra as The Cab Driver
  • Ranvir Shorey as Mr.Motwani
  • Mukta Barve as Lakshmi The Prostitute
  • Jalees Sherwani as Head Eunuch
  • Bikramjeet Kanwarpal

    • Almas in a still from the movie Thanks Maa

    References

    Thanks Maa Wikipedia
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    Thanks Maa IMDb Thanks Maa themoviedb.org