From a Gujarat village to the Oscars: How Bhavin Rabari, a boy with no acting experience, became the face of the Chhello show
When filmmaker Pan Nalin set out to cast the lead role for his Gujarati film Chhello Show (The Last Film Show), he wasn’t looking in acting schools or film institutes. He wanted a real village boy from Gujarat, someone whose innocence and rawness matched the character he had written, a nine-year-old named Samay, whose life…