Chabiwali Pocket Watch

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{{Infobox film

| name = Chabiwali Pocket Watch

| image = chabiwali.jpg

| caption = Movie poster

| director = Vibhu Puri

| writer = Vibhu Puri

| starring = Lalit Mohan Tiwari
Jameel Khan
Gayatri Kachru

| producer = Film and Television Institute of India

| cinematography = Anay Goswamy

| music = Mangesh Dhakde

| editing = Arindam Ghatak

| released = {{Film date|2006}}

| country = India

| language = Hindi
Urdu

| runtime = 28 minutes

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Chabiwali Pocket Watch is a 2006 short film written and directed by Vibhu Puri and produced by the Film and Television Institute of India.{{cite web| title =Achievements and recent initiates| publisher =Film and Television Institute of India| url =http://www.ftiindia.com/students_awards.html| accessdate =2014-06-26| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130412173702/http://www.ftiindia.com/students_awards.html| archive-date =12 April 2013| url-status =dead}} 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.{{cite web |title=Short/ Docs |publisher=Miaac Film Festival |date=7–11 November 2007 |url=http://www.iaac.us/seventh_film_festival2007/film_details.htm |accessdate=2014-06-26 |archive-date=25 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725151205/http://www.iaac.us/seventh_film_festival2007/film_details.htm |url-status=dead }} 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.

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.{{cite news | title = 21 short films from FTII to be telecast on Doordarshan | url = https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news-interviews/21-short-films-from-FTII-to-be-telecast-on-Doordarshan/articleshow/19513113.cms | first=Akshata | last=Shetty | date=13 April 2013 | accessdate = 27 June 2018 | newspaper = The Times of India }}

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.

Cast

Festivals

Awards

  • Best Feature at IBDA’A Awards, Dubai
  • Special Kodak Award for the director at the 13th International Film School Festival, Poland
  • Special Jury Award for the director Vibhu Puri, 53rd National Film Awards, 2006 {{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm53NFAAward.aspx|title=53rd National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|accessdate=19 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815224948/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm53NFAAward.aspx|archive-date=15 August 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/53rd_nff_2006.pdf|title=53rd National Film Awards (PDF)|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|accessdate=19 March 2012}}
  • Winner, Asia Pacific Kodak Filmschool Competition, 2006
  • Best Cinematography award in the 'Emerging Filmmakers' section, Cannes Film Festival: Anay Goswamy{{cite web | title = View Finder |publisher=Indian Express| url = http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/view-finder/1092034/ |date=23 March 2013| accessdate = 2014-06-26 }}

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