11 Terrorism and Trainers in a Transnational Remake: Child Labour and Commodity Culture in the Bollywood Adaptation of New Iranian Cinema’s Children of Heaven Michael Lawrence he child’s signiicance for the transnational distribution and reception of certain kinds of cinema – the presence of so many ilms on the international festival and art house circuits that feature children in prominent roles – would suggest that the child might also enjoy a particularly productive relationship with the transnational adaptation of cinema. In such adaptations, the representation of the child would inevitably expose how the cultural and material speciicities of childhoods are asserted or obscured during the indigenization of particular feature ilms across national borders. his chapter seeks to demonstrate not only the value of the transnational remake for understanding images of children in global ilm cultures, but also the value of the child for understanding images of globalization in transnational cinema. he contemporary Bollywood remake illuminates these complex transnational cultural dynamics. ‘In our current era of globalization’, writes Radia Washna Richards, ‘there is an urgent need to investigate cinematic border crossings and explore how cultures embrace and resist, borrow from and interact with each other. ’ 1 To explore the relationship between childhood and globalization in the transnational adaptation, I focus on the representation of child labour and commodity culture in the Bollywood ilm Bumm Bumm Bole (Priyadarshan, 2010), an oicial Hindi-language remake of the Academy Award-winning Iranian feature Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, 1997). I examine the transnational adaptation process by addressing, irst, the two ilms’ representation of child labour, considering the signiicance of the Bollywood ilm’s introduction of a subplot concerning local terrorism, BLO_12 Chapter 11.indd 181 BLO_12 Chapter 11.indd 181 9/8/2016 9:22:24 PM 9/8/2016 9:22:24 PM