The Blue Umbrella
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Directed by	Vishal Bhardwaj
Produced by	Ronnie Screwvala
Written by	Vishal Bhardwaj Ruskin Bond Abhishek Chaubey Minty Kunwar Tejpal
Starring	Shreya Sharma Pankaj Kapur Deepak Dobriyal Sariska Rai
Music by	Vishal Bhardwaj
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

The Blue Umbrella (Romanagari: Chatri Chor) is a 2007 Indian film based on the novel, The Blue Umbrella, by Ruskin Bond and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. It starred Shreya Sharma and Pankaj Kapur in lead roles. Music was by Vishal Bhardwaj and lyrics were penned down by Gulzar.

[edit] Plot

The story 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 . 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.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Awards

• 2006: National Film Award for Best Children's Film

[edit] External links

• The Blue Umbrella (film) at the Internet Movie Database

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