The actor Boman Irani has taken up a role of education activist and Nobel laureate, Kailash Sathyarthi. The film will be a Brahamanand Singh production, who’s been recognised at the National level. The movie is set to be titled ‘Jhalki‘.
The film is all about a little girl looking for her brother who is missing, while working as a child labourer. Boman Irani said, I canned my portions in a few days. Kailash Satyarthi is a person every Indian should be in awe of. I shot at Mirzapur, it was 47 degrees. It’s a wonderful realisation to go there and understand the problems people in different parts of the country go through.
In the film, Boman Irani will be seen playing a character of child’s right and education activist. While he barely had time before he dived into his role, Boman said, It’s a different experience altogether, which is different than the other films. It’s about understanding his beautiful way with children. He is so fearless while carrying out rescue operations. At the same time, with the kids, he was like a child himself. Admitting that he has not met Satyarthi yet but he had his director promise him to arrange a meeting.
Kailash Satyarthi is a child’s rights and education advocate and an activist against child labour. He founded the ‘Bachpan Bachao Andolan’ in 1980 and has worked towards protecting the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries. Kailash was born as Kailash Sharma. At the age of 15, he deeply affected by the injustice inherent in the deeply-flawed caste system. After that, he decided to drop his surname and adopted Satyarthi instead which translate to ‘Seeker of Truth’.