No child's play

The genre called 'children's films' or 'films for children' is too broad a label to understand what these films stand for. Featuring a child as the protagonist does not necessarily imply attracting a child audience. In fact, most of these films raise questions about the adult world's understanding and mistaken perceptions about the needs, desires and problems of children. Shoma A. Chatterji analyses as Amol Gupta's Hawa Hawai hits screens