The Blue Umbrella (film)
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| The Blue Umbrella | |
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| Directed by | Vishal Bharadwaj |
| Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala |
| Written by | Vishal Bharadwaj Ruskin Bond Abhishek Chaubey Minty Kunwar Tejpal |
| Starring | Shreya Sharma Pankaj Kapur |
| Music by | Vishal Bharadwaj |
| Cinematography | Sachin K. Krishn |
| Editing by | Aarif Sheikh |
| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 10 August 2007 |
| Running time | 90 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| IMDb profile | |
The Blue Umbrella (Romanagari: Chatri Chor) is a 2007 Indian film based on the novel, The Blue Umbrella, by Ruskin Bond.
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The Blue Umbrella is set in a small village of Himachal Pradesh, where a little girl, Binya, trades her bear claw necklace for a pretty, frilly blue umbrella. In a village where the richest man who is the shop keeper who keeps an old ruined shop and sells warm Coca Cola bottles due to no refrigerator, an umbrella is a precious thing to have . Soon the shop keeper becomes envious of the umbrella and employs a boy to steal it. One day the girl finds her umbrella missing. Soon after the shop-keeper gets a similar umbrella but a red one. With this the center of attraction shifts from the little girl to the shop keeper. However his celebrity status doesn't last very long as the villagers discover the umbrella is the stolen umbrella, only it had been dyed red. As a result the shop keeper's name is tarnished in the village. The story concludes with the little girl giving the umbrella to the shop keeper and dancing down the road, happy.
The film is made by Vishal Bharadwaj and lyrics are penned down by Gulzar.
The Blue Umbrella has won the National Award for the Best Children's film.
