Amol Gupte

Amol Gupte’s Stanley Ka Dabba Turns 11

A sparkling gem of a film, if ever there was one, "Stanley Ka Dabba" is the sort of rare and precious look at the world of a child as seen aeons ago in Satyajit Ray's "Apur Sansar" or his short-film "Pikoo's Diary". Closer in time, there was "Taare Zameen Par" with which Amole Gupte was profoundly associated. "Stanley Ka Dabba" goes far deeper into the mind of a male child. This time, the endeavour is not to milk the child's deficiencies for tears. In "Stanley…" Gupte looks for and finds an enormously engaging and humane story in the normal tenor of a 10-year old b | Click Here...