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No Kidding in Bollywood: Child artists to Super Stars

In early days, stereotyped child artists in Indian movies would be fair, chubby, light eyed kids with a beaming smile and innocent faces. Well known actress, Sarika, of the 'Parzania' fame, has acted in 60 movies as a male child artist, and was known as Baby Sooraj, when the credits of the films were displayed. Times have changed where once a child artists had to go through grueling working hours, missing out schools, tiresome screen takes and re-takes and paid less compared to other actors. However, unlike its counter part, Hollywood has had cases where exposure to the media, hype and earl... Read more »