In the only talk show of it's kind for children, tiny-tots in the age group of 3 to 8 years will be asked to vent their woes and wishes to a moderator, dressed as a sailor, in a set recreating underwater environment.
Named 'Lakshi Chhana' the show will be aired on a popular Bengali channel on Children's day (November 14).
Children will speak their mind and open up about how they are left alone by parents the whole day, spurned by a stressed father after returning home from office, or bullied by friends, director Somnath Roy told PTI.
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Sujan Neel Mukherjee, stage and film actor and anchor of the show, said, "Bringing out the kids from the format of talent show of singing, dancing we aim to give them a window to reach out to a responsive world which will never laugh at any thoughts.
"They can say about how much they miss the adults and how much the adults are unresponsive to the concerned child's cries for attention at home."
Neel, dressed as sailor-captain, will dole out gifts from the Santa Claus-type 'jhola' to the children.
"The show, first such one in the country, will also wean away the toddlers and the little ones from tab and computer games and the adult world of entertainment, Neel, whose recent directorial film 'Chocolate' had been acclaimed, said.
In a courtroom setting, the adults will be shown clippings of their child's conversation with the 'sailor' and confronted with allegations of neglect or indifference.
"It is all in the spirit of a game. Our aim is to make the parents reach out to their children and make them more attentive towards their offspring. In many nuclear households we heard from the child how she was snubbed by father when she went near him when he returned from office ," he said.
"To our knowledge there had been no such shows involving small children. There had been talk shows of teenagers and adolescents or reality shows involving children," Neel said.
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