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- ↑ Rangayan, Sridhar. "Not a child's play!". Solaris Pictures. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
- ↑ "Indian children's film". Mid-Day. Sify . 11 June 2004. Archived from the original on 20 March 2014.
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