Bollywood star Anil Kapoor on Friday kick-started a campaign to highlight the plight of millions of children in India who are forced into work, adding that he hoped his celebrity status would influence and inspire others to stamp out the practice.The campaign run by the children's charity Plan India aims to use Kapoor - a veteran Hindi film actor with a career spanning three decades - to raise awareness and encourage the public to shake off apathy linked to decades of social acceptance of child labor.Kapoor, best known internationally for his role in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 film 'Slumdog Millionaire', said millions of children in the country were being exploited, largely due to poverty, and as a result not going to school."Our economic progress loses a lot of meaning if hundreds of thousands of children have no hopes of a future," Kapoor told a news conference launching the campaign in Mumbai.

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