A beautiful story about friendship and honesty ‘Chor Chor Chhup Ja’ was screened here on Thursday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum. The movie was screened under the regular children’s film screenings ‘Ullas’.

It is to be noted that Ullas is organised every Thursday at tribal museum for school children. The children’s movies of different genres are screened under this series.

Here on Thursday, Hindi film Chor Chor Chhup Ja was much enjoyed by the children. The movie was directed by B V Karanth and featured Om Puri in the lead role.

Madhav a mute kid, has too many wonderful toys, but no friends to play with. He befriends Ramu, a monkey and his owner, a thief. This strange friendship has an unexpected affect. In trying to talk to the monkey, Madhav begins speaking haltingly, while Ramu’s thieving owner moved by the child’s innocence, decides to give up stealing.

But would it be so easy for him to turn an honest manij Would Madhav ever regain his speech completelyij This was all about the movie.

 One of the leading lights of Indian’s cultural space, B V Karanth was a stage and film actor, director and a sought after music director. An alumnus of the prestigious National School of Drama in Delhi, he later became its director. Karanth directed over 100 plays, half of them being in Kannada and the rest in English, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Sanskrit and Gujarati. He also directed four feature films and four documentaries besides giving music to 26 others. He won four National Awards for his films. He died in 2002.