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(with English Subtitles)
Producer : Aashish Rego
Story, Screenplay and Direction : Gautam Joglekar
Original Concept : Sai Paranjpe
Cast : Nana Patekar, Saksham Kulkarni, Narayani Shastri
About the movie:
Chikhloo, a twelve-year-old orphan stays in village Mangalpada with his grandmother. His fellow villagers thought they could rag him
since he was just a small, helpless orphan.
In order to counter their vile intentions, Chikhloo was forced to resort to defense tactics. He soon learnt that offense is the best form of
defense. He also realized that he possesses an inborn talent for mischief, and soon, what had begun as a mere means of survival,
turned into divine enjoyment for Chikhloo. Now he thrives on causing tremendous angst to the villagers, and they have become his
sworn enemies.
Alas, Chikhloo is only half of the villagers’ worries. Their other nemesis is Bhutya, the dreaded ghost that haunts the jungles
surrounding the village. In Mangalpada, every adversity… be it epidemic, accident, or death… is attributed to be Bhutya’s doing. They
even deem Chikhloo to be an incarnate of Bhutya himself.
“Why not?” thinks Chikhloo. If he joined forces with Bhutya, he would have an upper hand in his war against the villagers. And Chikhloo
sets off into the jungles to meet Bhutya.
Chikhloo meets Bhutya and finds him to be not so scary after all. Citing the villagers to be their common enemy, he lays before the
ghost of the jungle, a profound proposal of partnership. Awed and amused by the boy’s gall, Bhutya agrees to be Chikhloo’s friend and
to help him teach the villagers a lesson they would never forget.
What follows is a heart-warming narrative of the warm friendship that develops between the boy and the ghost. And boy, are the
villagers of Manglapada in for a shock???
© California Arts Association 2006