Chori karna paap hai; nadi kinare saamp hai

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Bangalore,  ENN Exclusive:

Chori karna paap hai; nadi kinare saamp hai, was the message for the children who came to watch the movie ‘The Blue Umbrella’ at K V Subbanna Intimate Auditorium on Sunday in Bangalore.

As part of ‘Maasada Cinema’ programme, meaning month’s cinema or never fading cinema, The Blue Umbrella, a movie directed in 2005 by popular Bollywood film-maker Vishal Bharadwaj, was played especially for children to educate them on movie appreciation and critiquing.  The movie is based on Ruskin Bond’s story The Blue Umbrella.

The story is about a central character of the movie Biniya, played by Shreya Sharma, acquiring a blue Japanese umbrella that becomes the point of interest of the entire village hidden in the valleys and hills of Kashmir. While Bindiya shows it off as her pride, another notable character, a shrewd shopkeeper Nandakishore Khatri, played by Pankaj Kapoor, is obsessed with the idea of possessing the umbrella. He feels that his soul is connected to the Japanese umbrella. The price of a Japanese Umbrella in the market is Rs 2,500 against a Rs 125 for a black regular umbrella, which is expensive for him who then with the help of his assistant in the shop Rajaram, steals Biniya’s umbrella and gets it dyed red to hide the theft. Biniya proves that it is the stolen umbrella and the entire village banishes the shopkeeper. In the end, however, all is well. The shopkeeper learns his lesson and turns into a good man.

Said a 13-year-old girl Chinmayee Rao, “This movie is different from the others I have watched. I learnt that one should not steal to acquire things. One small mistake of the shopkeeper changed his entire life. That is the learning for me.”

The movie however well-made did not interest some of the children who felt it was longer than it ought to be. “It is a different movie. The blue umbrella was beautiful. But it was bit lengthy,” said 10-year-old lad Prasidh Bhushan.

In a discussion arranged after screening of the movie led by Ashok Nittur of Chitra Sankula, Vishwanath, a journalist with Deccan Herald and Halappa B, who teaches art and theatre at KVS High School, brought out the interesting aspects of the movie.

Vishwanath brought out the revealing points in the movie. He elaborated on how mystery was created around the blue Japanese umbrella and the entire story around its theft and revelation. Nittur appreciated the initiative of educating the children through the art.

As part of education through art, the project was initiated seven weeks ago by Kannada filmdom’s noted movie maker Girish Kasarvalli. “We screen relevant regional, national and international movies at the auditorium. One can watch a movie which is not available for screening in the theatres or available elsewhere. And this screening is such one movie,” said the secretary of KV Subbanna Intimate Auditorium, B R Gopinath. “We plan to screen S Nagabharan’s Kamsale next Sunday,” he added. Nagabharan is another noted film-maker in Kannada movie industry.

The auditorium presided by Kasaravalli and frequented by the likes of litterateurs Girish Karnad, Chandrashekhar Kambar, U R Ananthamurthy among others has initiated several programmes of promoting art, theatre and music since nine years. (Posted on April 14, 2013)

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