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India’s Manohara Evolves From Award-Winning Child Actor to Director of Shanghai-Selected Film on Albinism ‘Bird of a Different Feather’


India's Manohara has had an inspirational journey from an award-winning child actor to a Shanghai-selected film on albinism.

Sonia is admitted to a new school in the city with new classmates who are discriminatory and hostile because of how she looks, and her teachers are apathetic. The film explores her transformation from a shy, self-pitying teenager to a mature young woman who learns to live in peace with herself and her surroundings. Manohara, 22, is now continuing his studies as a first-year master of commerce student in Bengaluru and was also involved in the sowing of the ragi (finger millet) crop in his village in the run-up to Shanghai.

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