Question

Setting of the novel 'blue umbrella'

Answer 1

In a small village of Himachal Pradesh, there lived a little girl, Binya. In the village the shopkeeper keeps an old ruined shop and sells warm Coca Cola bottles and sweets to the school going kids. Binya has been given a beautiful blue umbrella by foreign tourists in exchange of her leopard claw pendant. The people in the village of Himachal Pradesh become very fond of her umbrella. Soon the shopkeeper becomes envious of the umbrella and tries to buy it from Binya by telling her that this is a 'fancy umbrella' small girls should not have it, he tried his best to buy the umbrella but Binya refuses by saying that,"This is not for sale."

As time passes by, Ram Bharosa's desire to get the umbrella turns in to obsession. The school closes due to the arrival of the monsoon and Ram Bharosa employs a boy named Rajaram from the next village to work at the shop. When he comes to know about his master's desire to own it he makes an attempt to steal the umbrella but fails and on being caught, he gives Ram Bharosa's name. Now everyone stopped coming to Ram Bharosa's shop.Ram Bharosa had got a bear necklace and he coated it with silver. However, Binya realizes her mistake and that she shouldn't have shown off her umbrella because for now, due to it, Ram Bharosa was suffering. In the end, Binya gives the umbrella to Ram Bharosa, who gifts her a necklace with a bear's claw.

Answer 2

Based on a novella by Rushkin Bond, and set in the picturesque Himachal Pradesh, Chatri Chor tells the story of the turmoil caused in a small village, by ablue umbrella that Biniya (Shreya Sharma), a young village girl obtains from a Japanese tourist in exchange for her lucky charm necklace carrying two bear claws.