Master Kishen has bagged three international awards at the 18^th Cairo International Film Festival for children for his film Care of Footpath- the international long and short film competition section selected by the children’s international jury, the special international jury award, and the prestigious Alexandria International Film Festival Award instituted by the Journalists Syndicate of Egypt. Master Kishen is the Guinness world record holder for being the youngest director of “Care of Footpath” at the tender age of 11. Earlier, the youngest film director and child prodigy had left for Cairo on a special invite from the Ministry of Culture, on behalf of the Cairo government.

Care of Footpath has previously won numerous awards, as well as honor of being the opening film at the Cyprus international film festival in the non-competitive section and the closing film at the Bhutan international film festival. It also won the best film award at Children Oscar at Giffoni film festival and the Silver Elephant for best child actor at the Hyderabad Children Film festival.

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