Chabiwali Pocket Watch

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Chabiwali Pocket Watch
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Directed by Vibhu Puri
Written byVibhu Puri
Produced by Film and Television Institute of India
Starring Lalit Mohan Tiwari
Jameel Khan
Gayatri Kachru
Cinematography Anay Goswamy
Edited by Arindam Ghatak
Music by Mangesh Dhakde
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
Running time
28 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesHindi
Urdu

Chabiwali Pocket Watch is a 2006 short film written and directed by Vibhu Puri and produced by the Film and Television Institute of India. [1] The film is set in Old Delhi and deals with the story of a romantic Urdu poet, now dying anonymously, and the struggle between his daughter and an opportunist publisher. [2] The film was the official entry from India to the Student Academy Awards. It was also a chosen to be a part of Indian Panorama in 2006.

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At the 53rd National Film Awards, director Vibhu Puri received the Special Jury Award. In 2013, it was amongst many FTII student films to be telecasted by the state-run Doordarshan channel. [3]

Synopsis

Urdu, the Hindustani language whose words resonate music, is fast dying. So is Babba, an old Urdu poet who is dying an unknown death. Having shut his eyes to the callous world that weighs art with money, he has woven a charming little world of his own. Babba's state of nonchalant bliss inadvertently drives his daughter Minni into a world of bitter silences. And across the road lives Pappan, a small-time debt-ridden publisher who is eyeing Babba's treasured verses and his beautiful daughter. A self-indulgent, romantic old man, a stoic but essentially soft-hearted daughter and an opportunist but naive publisher. Amidst all this, Babba, Minni and Pappan struggle to keep their culture alive, their ethos alive, their language alive, their love alive, in vain.

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