Do we really spare a thought for our child artistes? Not really, not even the government gives them a thought. Filmmaker Amole Gupte, chief of the Children Film Society of India (CFSI), wrote a letter to the government and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights requesting that a law be implemented on working conditions of child artistes in television and cinema. It’s been months since the letter was sent, but there’s been no reply from the government.

Filmmaker and Children Film Society of India chief Amole Gupte has written a letter to the government that a law needs to be implemented on the working conditions of child artistes

Implement rules
Says Gupte, “There is a law for child labour, but one needs to have a law for child artistes like there is in European and other Western countries. I would like the rules to be like the Animal Welfare Board today — you don’t get a certificate if the rules are not followed. I am grateful to Maneka Gandhi for getting this rule implemented. Until there is a law, nobody is going to listen.”