The return of Simba

KIDDIES IN the city are having a blast, especially, with `Miss' taking them to the movies. The Britannia Children's Film Festival that started earlier this week, opened to house-full shows at Woodlands theatre. ``All shows are sold out,'' the event organisers, Events tell us.

The children's film festival, a fund raiser for the Indian Council for Child Welfare, had tickets for Rs.20, sold to various schools across the city.

The result: Kids got to sit back and watch some contemporary classic children movies. With their friends. And that happens quite rarely. An trip that every kid waits for. Come on, we all know how we waited for the field trip day. Today's kids don't get too many occasions either.

And what a way to get-together. Check out the line-up that will engross the kids in the course of the week. Alador, the `Dinosaur', had the fest started on Monday. The tale of good versus evil set in prehistoric time, is a spectacle of the 21st century with its imaginative and breath-taking 3-D animation.

The children then watched `Stuart Little' adopted into a family, facing the pangs of human relationships. More humanising of animal emotions followed with `A Bug's Life' that enthralled the kiddies on Wednesday.

Coming up on Thursday, is the unforgettable classic, `The Lion King'. Time for children to sing `Hakuna Matata' with their pals. The Disney production redefined children's cinema. Ask Nasser, he confesses it was a movie that almost brought a tear to his. And it's all animation.

After making friends with Simba, the kids will continue to be treated to action in the jungle with `Tarzan' on Friday. The curtains of the festival go down on Saturday with yet another adventure flick for kids, `Mighty Joe Young'.

``The funds that have been collected from children are for children and child welfare,'' the organisers say. Impressed by the response for a festival of this nature, the event managers have enough reason to plan for more of the kind. Meanwhile, if you don't have tickets, watch them on video.

By Sudhish Kamath

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