Thanks Maa is a Hindi Bollywood

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 film directed by Débutante

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 director Irfan Kamal, distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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(SPE), India. The film focuses on Child abandonment

Child abandonment

Child abandonment is the practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one's offspring with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting them. Causes include many social and cultural factors as well as mental illness. An abandoned child is called a foundling .-Causes:Poverty is often a...

 Issue in India

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. It has been officially selected to be screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival

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, Pusan International Film Festival

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, Montreal World Film Festival

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, Cannes Film Festival

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, International Film Festival of India

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 and Palm Springs International Film Festival

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. The debut child actor Master Shams Patel has also won the Best Child Artist

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 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

Mumbai

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 with just four of his friends from the streets - Soda (15), Sursuri (10), Cutting (8) & Dhed-shaana (6).

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.

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

Actor	Role
Master Shams Patel	Municipality Ghatkopar
Master Salman	Soda
Master Fayaaz	Cutting
Baby Almas	Sursuri
Master Jaffer	Dhed-Shaana
Baby Sakshi	Krish
Alok Nath Alok Nath Alok Nath is an Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood movies. He is most notable for playing the role of Haveli Ram in Ramesh Sippy's television series, Buniyaad.-Early life:...	Warden of the Reformatory
Raghubir Yadav	Peon of the Municipality Hospital
Barry John	Priest at the Church
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Jalees Sherwani	Head Eunuch