Shabana Azmi speaks on her part of The Wishing Tree as Subhash K Jha in another edition of This Day That Year, looks back at the 2017 film.
At times, cinema is more commendable for its intention rather than execution. At the execution level, The Wishing Tree, which opened this week to a near-blank response, leaves much to be desired. The performances by the children are embarrassingly loud and self-conscious. Even the slew of veterans from the redoubtable Saurabh Shukla (bullying and spanking kids in a clumsy wig) to hardly seen veteran theatre actress Mahabano Mody-Kotwal, come up with woefully clunky performances.
This lack of tact and subtlety in telling an essentially eco-friendly parable about saving a tree could be seen to be symptomatic of what ails children’s films in our country. We just don’t make films that connect with the younger audience. Either the so-called children’s films...
At times, cinema is more commendable for its intention rather than execution. At the execution level, The Wishing Tree, which opened this week to a near-blank response, leaves much to be desired. The performances by the children are embarrassingly loud and self-conscious. Even the slew of veterans from the redoubtable Saurabh Shukla (bullying and spanking kids in a clumsy wig) to hardly seen veteran theatre actress Mahabano Mody-Kotwal, come up with woefully clunky performances.
This lack of tact and subtlety in telling an essentially eco-friendly parable about saving a tree could be seen to be symptomatic of what ails children’s films in our country. We just don’t make films that connect with the younger audience. Either the so-called children’s films...
- 6/9/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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