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The Blue Umbrella Blues
2007-09-13 00:00:00 If you haven’t seen Vishal Bhardwaj’s The Blue Umbrella you have not really missed much besides the beautiful blue sky and the snow capped mountains of Himachal, writes Kay The worst... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit DearCinema for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Blue Umbrella (Chatri Chor)
2007-08-21 08:17:00 This past weekend I saw The Blue Umbrella (also called as Chatri Chor). According to IMDB, the movie was released internationally in 2005, but was released in India on Aug 10. This is the third movie I've seen directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The movie won the National Award in India for Best Children's Film.The movie is adapted from a short story of the same name by Ruskin Bond. (On a side note, I have a book autographed by him. He visited my high school in 1998.) Bond is one of my favorite Indian authors and his writings, most of which are set in the Doon Valley and Lower Himalayas of Uttaranchal (or rather, Uttarakhand), give you a sense of solitude - so typical of the Himalayan hill-stations. It is as if one is transformed to the hills - anyone who has been to the lower Himalayas would probably agree.And true to Bond stories, this movie is shot in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh - a beautiful hill town (though somewhat rife with commercial tourism but not like Shimla, or Mussoorie). B...
By: Sourav Das
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