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Poor timing for children's film festival

Special Correspondent

BANGALORE: What a pity schools have reopened after the Christmas vacation. The National Children's Film Festival now on has no less than 18 great movies specially made with children in kind, being screened at the Jawahar Bal Bhavan and two regular cinemas.

The film festival is on till January 12 among the films being screened are "Kotreshiya Kanasu" and "Pravaha" in Kannada, "Ek Ajooba" in Hindi and "Malli" in Tamil. In a city where except for the occasional English film, not much effort is made to screen films for children, the festival could have been held a week earlier, many feel.

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