Filmmaker Soumitra Ranade has been selected for a screenwriting lab by NFDC for a genre that is nearly absent in the country according to him — cinema for children. His project, Kabuliwala, an animation inspired by a short story of Rabindranath Tagore, is among the six selected projects for its first Children’s Screenwriter’s Lab.

A work-in-progress frame from the animation film Kabuliwala by Soumitra Ranade.