Updated On: 29 July, 2012 08:05 AM IST | | Kareena N Gianani
The theatrical release of the film Gattu by the Children's Film Society Of India (CFSI) has given new hope to children's cinema in the country. For the first time, the CFSI is receiving multiple entries in India's regional dialects, such as Garo and Lepcha. With an animation feature, a Kannada film and a Script Lab in the pipeline, the CFSI ufffd and children's cinema ufffd may just have found its feet
Twenty five year-old student Dominic Megam Sangma seems silver-tongued over the telephone from Kolkata, as he speaks about what children’s cinema “ought to do in the world”.u00a0

Illustrator and animator Shilpa Ranade’s forthcoming animation feature film, Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya (top), produced by the CFSI, will be ready in September. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar