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Habbadi
Being part of his school's Kabaddi team is little Manya's only ticket to Mumbai, where he hopes to meet Ketaki, the girl he dearly loves. But his incessant stammering makes him as worthless to the team, as his agility makes him priceless. Set in a quaint, Kabaddi-crazy village near Kolhapur, India, Habaddi is a funny story about a 12-year-old orphan called Manya, with one amazing gift and one massive defect! Years of getting bullied by stronger boys in his village have made him the slipperiest l...
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Chote Nawab
13-year-old Junaid, visits his ancestral Nawabi Haveli in Lucknow, over a family reunion for a wedding. Born and raised in UK, this is Junaid's first visit to India, along with his overbearing parents, which soon turns into a roller coaster ride for him. From having his first smoke, to falling madly in love and getting his heart broken, he goes through all the rites of passage a teenager goes through in the bittersweet, coming of age phase. But the underlying rot of patriarchy in his extended f...