A matter of rr honour Thanks Maa, a film on abandoned kids, has been selected for the Best New International Feature Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s the story about the journey of a 12-year old boy living on the streets of Mumbai, on a mission to find the mother of a two-day-old abandoned baby boy. He has four friends who are either abandoned or runaways and surviving on the streets of Mumbai who help him. Out of the five street kids in the film, four are actual street kids. “The boys were trained by NSD graduate Abhay Joshi and me,” says Irfan Kamal, the film’s debutant director, who’s also the son of the late choreographer, Kamal.