MUMBAI: Veteran singer Kumar Sanu has donned the producer's cap and is now making a film on the street children of Mumbai.

Titled "Yeh Sunday Kyon Aata Hai," the film starring Mithun Chakraborty and Kashmira Shah, is about children living on Mumbai's railway platforms.

Similar to Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches film in which the lead pair of children was picked up from Mumbai's slum, Sanu's film also features four children who actually live on the Goregaon Railway station, says a PTI report.

"The four kids are real life street children, they earn a living by polishing shoes on the railway platforms of Mumbai. They star alongside Mithun, who plays a benevolent Sikh policeman. The children now attend school and are keen on continuing their studies," Kumar Sanu told reporters here.

The playback singer who was in the capital to promote his upcoming venture claimed that his film would portray "poverty with dignity unlike Danny Boyle's film." "My film will be a thousand times better than the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Instead of making a spectacle out of poverty and poor children, it strives to give the message that there is dignity even in poverty," the singer said.

"I don't consider 'Slumdog' as a realistic film as it depicts only the bad side of the city," he told PTI