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Ahsaas Channa, 9 year old, and having just finished working on Phoonk, the much awaited Ram Gopal Verma horror flick, insists that she’s a regular kid who likes to go out shopping with her mom and throws tantrums so that her mom buys her a doll. But as soon as cameras roll, she becomes a professional!

I would like to work with Aamir sir and Amithabh(ji). No more suffixes like ‘uncle’ intended. She praises Darsheel’s work in Taare Zameen Par but feels that she would have done that role better! She goes on to say that Aamir Sir and Yash Chopra are the best movie makers in the industry and that they can bring out the best in her! Ramuji is an amazing director, she adds. She has found that she likes challenges and she would like to do a role that challenges her skills, like Rani Mukherjee in Black. She has concluded that boys are big time losers and that she can easily bully them around.

All this from a 9 year old. She is saying it, TOI is printing it and I am writing a blog about it! What’s happening to us?

She insists that she is a regular kid, but what do you say? She is commenting on the skills of top people in the industry and evaluating them on the basis of ‘her understanding’! Freedom…..ya ya ya… surely, she can, but on what basis is a 9 year old making such judgments at all. How much does she know? A case of accelerated pre-adolesence. I mean she has not even hit her adolesence, and what does she know about the realities of life! What does she know about what is really good work?

Darsheel Safary, Swini Khara and Ahsaas Channa, all represent a breed of tweens who have received fame and recogition and lots of money much before they will have hormones going heywire inside of them. They try to talk like “been there, done that” and our media glorifies them (and now I am not excused too!) but I surely am apprehensive about the lot that they are inspiring now. the other kids that are drawing inspiration and keenly watching their talk, their life style and their attitude. The attitude, when extrapolated, looks scary! These kids are not smart, they are “oversmart” and that too, they have started to talk the way the bigger lot does, which makes them “Street Oversmart“!

Where has gone the innocence and the privilege of being a child who could live life without the care and worry of what his grown ups cared and fussed about? I look back at the time I was a young child and I yearn for those years to come back to me. I fear, what will these kids look back to! They surely do seem to be enjoying it, and getting paid for it, but….

Tags: Ahsaas Channa, Darsheel Safary, innocence, Oversmart, Phoonk, Ram Gopal Verma, Swini Khara, Taare Zameen Par

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