Care of Footpath
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| Directed by | Kishan Shrikanth |
| Produced by | Shylaja Shrikanth |
| Screenplay by | Jogi Udayamarakini |
| Story by | Kishan Shrikanth |
| Starring | Kishan Shrikanth |
| Music by | Ravi Dattatreya Background score: Srivathsa |
| Cinematography | P. Mathew Rajan |
| Edited by | B. S. Kemparaju Lakshman Reddy |
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Kiran Movie Makers
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Running time
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135 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
| Budget | ₹80 lakh (equivalent to ₹1.8 crore or US$270,000 in 2016) |
| Box office | ₹26.8 million (equivalent to ₹60 million or US$900,000 in 2016) |
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| Awards won | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nominations | 0 + N/A | ||||||||||||||||
C/o Footpath (or Care of Footpath) is the first film produced by the Kiran Movie Makers of Bangalore, India. It was directed by the world’s youngest film director, Guinness Record Holder Kishan Shrikanth.
It was originally shot in the Kannada language. It was dubbed into other Indian languages including Hindi, Oriya, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil as well as English.
C/o Footpath had a budget of 20 million rupees (about $450,000). The shoot lasted for 55 days, over a period of 5–6 months. Filming took place in Mumbai.
The film was released in 2006 with a running time of 135 minutes. It received the Best Children's Film Award at the 54th National Film Awards.
An orphan slum boy is adopted by an old lady who finds him on a footpath. He lives with her in the slums, where he makes a living picking up rags. Some school students call him an uneducated brute, which gives him the impetus to get educated. The story tells how he battles the odds of his circumstances to get an education.
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