Wordiezett So much average

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Manoj Ransing Director Vishal Bhardwaj is by now an expert in making the movies suitable for children genre. The movie "Blue Umbrella" is much more similar to his previous creation Makdee, gives a lot to watch for adults than the children. I think these movies are two amongst the best in this category.The story of 'Blue Umbrella' takes place at a some cold Himalayan village. The presentation and camera work to show the coolness of the village is marvelous. Within few minutes the audience will get mix with the village and the people living in it. The characters are sketched and presented in very simple manner and are introduced naturally. It takes just one song and a couple of scenes to get into the movie before the real story begun.The music and the acting are great points, which goes in favor of movie. Pankaj Kapur who leads the screen is a natural actor and as in his other characters you wont find any misbehavior in Nandkishor character. The child actor Shriya has also done a great job. The feelings that Biniya gets when she gets the umbrella, and again the sorrow for the lost of umbrella are done excellently by Shriya. Full credits to here and the director.I won't say anymore about this one. If you are reading this I will urge you to watch this. It is not one of those multi-masala Bollywood movies, neither the ultra boring Indian art movies. It is in between these two extremes and very much different than other movie. It's a real cool piece of cinema which is a great pleasure for the eyes and the mind. I am regretting for not watching the movie in theater. (I didn't recall this movie was released in any theater in Bangalore). But certainly from next time, I will wait impatiently for children movies from Vishal Bhardwaj.

Chrysanthepop Bharadwaj comes up with another interesting piece of cinema that's somewhat different from his other works. 'Omkara' was the last Bharadwaj film I'd seen and 'The Blue Umbrella' clearly excels that. Compared to 'Maqbool' and 'Omkara', 'The Blue Umrella' is a much more abstract and symbolic piece and yes, one of the main characters is played by an umbrella.Based on Ruskin Bond's novella, it is a very simple storytelling but uses a lot of symbolic elements and makes minimum but brilliant use of technical props. The cinematography welcomes us to the beautiful location and to the character's lives and minds. Each frame of the simplistic setting of North Himalaya is a treat to watch The use of colours is very effective and adds to the abstract nature e.g. what does the blue umbrella symbolize? What do the characters Kishore and Biniya represent? Well, that's for you to figure out. In my opinion the film symbolizes beauty, greed, love, pride, desire and forgiveness. The songs are charming with lovely lyrics that will very much appeal to children. The dialogues are witty and clever.About acting, the young Shreya is mature and very subtle as Biniya. I was amazed by Kapur's performance. I had last seen him in films like 'Maqbool', 'Dharm' etc, but here he was mind blowing. I can understand why he's referred to as one of the best actors as he seemed to quite naturally pull off Nand Kishore.This is one of the purest films to emerge from India in recent times. Though it's categorized as a children's film, it's not. It has a powerful message, is a visual treat and film-making at its simplest but most efficient.

anindyaall Superb Performances, panoramic cinematography, excellent storytelling and made with the heart. Like all other Vishal movies this one also has all the above qualities, but this movie has one thing which takes it ahead form all his earlier flicks and that is the way it treats humans and their emotions. Vishal turns the very simple story to the story of humanity and simplicity remains as it is.How an Blue Umbrella becomes center of two lives and how the two dealt with this. These two characters are Binya and Nand Kishore, played by introducing child artist Shreya and heavily experienced Pankaj Kapur. Pankaj Kapur lived the character of Nand Kishore in the movie. This was surely the best performance by him. His dialog delivery , accent , body language all was so real.I think Blue Umbrella is not only meant for children but for everyone who want to see great movies. Vishal has created the movies which are truly across boundaries and across ages.surely a 10/10.

mahajan_shruti a film which can be seen with the family.a film which is made from the heart by director.the direction,cinematography,screenplay n acting are simply superb.Indian cinema should promote such films which are truly world class.a clean,simple story telling is the beauty of the film.the brilliant photography of the film enhances the story.music of the film is fresh n soothing to the ears.the child artist is wonderful.the legendary actor,has once again out beaten himself. it is an adaption of one of ruskin bond's short stories.the director has been able to do full justice to this story.fabulously casted,enacted,directed n shot. a film everyone will enjoy!go with your family and see it.