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Movie Review - Blue Umbrella

New Delhi, Sat, 11 Aug 2007 Pallavi Sharma

Aug 11: The blue umbrella is a real feast for children having simple setting in an Indian village taking children on a ride to hilly hamlet, celebrating the natural sceneries of Himachal Pradesh which has been turned into a mythical village by the director who has really rewritten the novel of Ruskin Bond on the screen.

The whole movie flits around a ‘blue umbrella’ which casts a magic spell on every body in the village and tempting them to take its possession. Its owner, a simple village girl feels proud of its possession.

One day the umbrella is stolen and this disturbs the peace of the village. The search operation starts for the thief and this way movie moves.

The film has actually targeted the rural children who are often ignored as far as the entertainment is concerned. Often movies are decorated with high tech computers and electronic devices or supernatural entities which dawns on the movie unpalatable artificiality.

But blue umbrella is a natural feast with inherent simplicity. Simplicity is the main attraction and decoration of the movie.

Shreya Sharma as Biniya has presented a true picture of village girl who finds immense pleasure in petty possessions. Pankaj Kapoor has been in his very characteristic style of ‘office-office’ acting with simple expressions saying a lot.

Vishal Bhardwaj has been as successful in giving the story Indian colour as he has been in screening the tragedy by Shakespeare, ‘Othello’.

Sometimes film becomes slow but that is in tune with the life-style of Indian villages. We can’t expect the fast moving life of urban areas as in ‘Krish’. This reminds one of the descriptions found in Indian novels.

Most celebrated blue umbrella remains the centre of the story as title suggests.


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