the ones left in this film are as follows;"the son of a sex worker is avijit, a little fat living in India, he's an emotional and fragile boy, he's got a poison-like mind, allah's ability to pay taxes, he can take very good pictures, he just prints the shutter, and the rest is spontaneous. It's a photo machine gun, and as we touch the trigger, there's an idea about how people live, about the most sad ...the children of Calcutta, the puppets of life ... in the presence of pity they can create a feast for you or thank you. the capital of western Bengal in India. I think that the most important port of India is here because she is a life-lady too. I do not know what you understand from the word of the poor. I would argue that these people are really poor.Brisbane's ... someone who has done something sacred. even a single child has a tiny positive influence on your life, the world always changes. briski has done it. so my idol gap can fill up. He goes to Calcutta to live in the brothels and go to take pictures first. After the kids start giving them photo shoots. These guys are the children of sex workers. each one has a separate story, which is certainly tragic. avijit's mother, for example; Killed in the kitchen by the vendor. I think she's blowing up. These children who live in the brothel know very well what they expect in the future. girls are candidates to be prostitutes, men are ...One of the black-eyed girls says, "We tell everything so easily, we get it right now" about briski. the photo course is turning into a battle for life saving soon. she starts to look for a boarding school that will accept children. some of them have left a miracle bomb with a tiny touch on their life. remember the days you changed the way your toy train was going on its way around the track, so that's what briski is doing. Children change course.Avijit that your mother consoled me one day to send you to London to read; "Stop reading, we do not even have enough money to live," he says. and then finds himself in a photo exhibition in Amsterdam. Watch this movie to see the little miracles in the story. and then you wish to cause a little miracle. "

Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.While this is not necessarily the best documentary I have ever seen, or even on a subject I particularly care about, I must say it is a shocking subject matter that few are aware of. Prostitution has its supporters and detractors, but the conditions in Calcutta are awful and it is no place for children to be growing up if their mothers are prostitutes.This is everything that is wrong with prostitution. Maybe if done right, in Nevada or the Netherlands, it is a necessary evil. But in India it appears to just be an evil, no necessity about it.

Rather than writing my own review, I would like to direct IMDb users to the article "A missionary enterprise", written by Praveen Swami and published in FRONTLINE, a magazine by the Indian newspaper THE HINDU. Since IMDb doesn't permit the posting of URLs, you will need to search for the article yourself to access it. Not only calls Swami the "facts" of Zana Briski's film into question, the author particularly highlights how the documentary demeans the sex workers of Sonagachi. Having visited Sonagachi myself and witnessed the services provided by current and former sex workers for other sex workers in Sonagachi, I, too, call into question the narrative by Zana Briski. You got to ask yourself why she would go to Sonagachi to make a film but would leave out the work that the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee(DMSC) has been doing there over the last decades. Walking through Sonagachi you will pass by clinics, offices and signs of the DMSC. If you want to highlight the problems in communities other than your own, you should listen to as many voices as possible to understand the situation there as good as possible. Briski clearly decided to omit one of the key actors in her film, and to award her an Academy Award for that is nothing short of ludicrous.

If you are looking for a 'feel good' movie or one that gives you a strong feeling of hope, then you probably should not watch "Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids". It's a generally depressing film and offers a few tiny rays of hope by the end of the film...but only a few.Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman traveled to India and befriended a group of children and their families living in the brothels of Calcutta, India. How exactly they arranged all this is not mentioned in the film--it just begins with Zana spending time with a group of eight of these kids. She has taught them to use cameras and they are chronicling their lives in a crappy neighborhood--living amongst poverty and depravity. The filmmakers are not social workers--just filmmakers and photographers. Through the course of the film, Zana spends much of her time not just instructing the kids on photography and taking them on outings. She also tries to get the kids in boarding schools as well as one special kid a chance to go to an international photography conference in the Netherlands. But, despite her best efforts, the kids and their families have this strong pull--a pull to keep them in the gutters and on track to repeat the family pattern of prostitution, drug abuse and early death.Overall, an oddly compelling and ultimately depressing documentary. However, it is not without merit and I can see how it won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. It is well constructed and fascinating...and quite sad.