The Blue Umbrella is a 2007 Indian film

Cinema of India

The cinema of India consists of films produced across India, which includes the cinematic culture of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. Indian films came to be followed throughout South Asia and...

 based on the novel, The Blue Umbrella

The Blue Umbrella

The Blue Umbrella is a children's novel written by Ruskin Bond. The story is set in a small village of Himachal Pradesh, where a little girl, Binya, trades her leopard claw necklace for a pretty, frilly blue umbrella...

, by Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond, born 19 May 1934, is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist....

 and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj

Vishal Bhardwaj

Vishal Bhardwaj is an Indian film director, writer, screenwriter, music composer and playback singer.-Early life:Bhardwaj was born in Bijnor but raised in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh to Satya Bhardwaj, a homemaker, and Ram Bhardwaj, a popular poet and lyricist. His father was a government employee and...

. It starred Shreya Sharma and Pankaj Kapur in lead roles. The music was by Vishal Bhardwaj

Vishal Bhardwaj

Vishal Bhardwaj is an Indian film director, writer, screenwriter, music composer and playback singer.-Early life:Bhardwaj was born in Bijnor but raised in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh to Satya Bhardwaj, a homemaker, and Ram Bhardwaj, a popular poet and lyricist. His father was a government employee and...

 and lyrics were penned by Gulzar

Gulzar (lyricist)

Sampooran Singh Kalra , known popularly by his pen name Gulzar , is an Indian poet, lyricist and director. He primarily writes in Hindi-Urdu and has also written in Punjabi and several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in...

.

Plot

The story is set in a small village of Himachal Pradesh, where a girl, Binya, trades her bear claw necklace for a pretty, blue, Japanese umbrella. The richest man in the village is the shopkeeper of an old ruined shop. Soon the shopkeeper becomes envious of the umbrella. He won't pay for one from Japan and employs a boy to steal Binya's.

In a pasture, Binya finds her umbrella missing. Soon after, the shopkeeper gets a similar umbrella in red. With this, the center of attraction shifts from the girl to the shopkeeper. His celebrity status doesn't last long as the villagers discover the red umbrella is the stolen umbrella, only it had been dyed.

The shopkeeper's name is tarnished and people stop visiting his shop. The story concludes with the girl giving the umbrella to the shopkeeper and dancing down the road, happy.

Cast

• Pankaj Kapur  ... Nandakishore 'Nandu' Khatri
• Shreya Sharma  ... Biniya
• Deepak Dobriyal
  Deepak Dobriyal
  Deepak Dobriyal is an Indian film and theatre actor.He worked in many films like Not a Love Story, Teen Thay Bhai, Gulaal, Delhi 6, Omkara, Maqbool, Daayen Ya Baayen, Shaurya, 1971, 13B, The Blue Umbrella, Tanu Weds Manu and Mumbai Cutting.-Ealy life and education:Deepak's parents belong to Kabra...
  
    ... Robot Owner
• Rahul Kumar ... Tikku
• Paramjit Singh Kakran... Rajaram
• Piu Dutt ... Binya's mother
• Shailendra Mohite ... Cobbler
• Bhupinder Sharma ... Vaidji
• Kamal Tiwari ... Mukhiya
• Kumar Thakur ... Chander
• Dolly Ahluwalia
  Dolly Ahluwalia
  Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian costume designer and film/television actress, who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001.She has also been nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design three times, and won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design in 1996,...
  
  ... Lillavati
• Alok Mathur ... Masterji
• Rajesh Sharma ... Policeman
• Anil George ... Barber
• Samrat Mukherjee ... Bijju
• Vikas Bandhu ... Dan
• Avtar Sahani ... Choudhary
• Baldev Khosia ... Umbrella Seller
• Shlok Sharma ... Bijju's Friend
• Mohammad Shahid ... Bijju's Friend
• Gyaneshwar ... Bijju's Friend
• Bishnu Pandey ... Postman
• Rani Bansal ... Village Woman
• Seema ... Village Woman
• Abhay Sharma ... Postmaster

Soundtrack

#	Track	Singer(s)
1	Aasmani Chhatri	Upagna Pandya
2	Barfaan	Sukhwinder
3	Biniya The Warrior Princess	Instrumental
4	Chutti Hai	Upagna Pandya
5	Evil Lurks	Instrumental
6	Nandu The King	Instrumental
7	Panga	Upagna Pandya
8	Rise Above The Sky	Instrumental
9	Tesoo	Upagna Pandya
10	The Arrival	Instrumental
11	The Blue Umbrella	Instrumental
12	The Chash	Instrumental
13	The Desert	Instrumental
14	The Sky In My Hand	Instrumental