''Satrangee Parachute'' () is a
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
-language film released 25 February 2011. The film revolves around an eight-year-old runaway kid who runs away from his village in
Nainital to
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
with four of his friends.
Plot
Pappu (Siddhartha Sanghani), leader of a group of precocious kids, sets off to find a parachute for their visually impaired friend Kuhu. Pappu's parents, Chhotulal
(Zakir Hussain) and Sumitra
(Rupali Ganguly), worry for him but this is not the first time he has run away. However, the other parents are angry with Pappu for leading their kids astray.
When the five children overhear a man (Ashraf-ul-haq) mention buying a parachute, the kids follow him and his friends, but it turns out that the four men are terrorists planning an operation needing parachutes.
The police mistake the five kids as members of the terrorists and they are arrested. The investigating officer Rhino (Kay Kay Menon) gets nothing from the kids, so his commanding officer
(Jackie Shroff) takes over.
Cast
* Rajvi Patel as Kuhu
* Jackie Shroff as Jay Singh
* Rupali Ganguly as Sumitra C. Sharma
* Sanjay Mishra as Daroga Pratap Singh
* Kay Kay Menon as Rhino
* Rajpal Yadav as Parimal Babu
* Lilliput Faruqui
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Kaushik Dutta, Shamir Tandon and released by
Saregama
Saregama India Ltd. (Saregama refers to the first four notes of the Indian musical scale); formerly known as The Gramophone Company Of India Ltd. is India's oldest music label owned by the RP- Sanjiv Goenka Group of companies. The company i ...
.
Reception
The Times of India
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gave ''Satrangee Parachute'' 2 stars out of 5, saying "Why does the world's biggest film industry dish out the saddest kiddie films, week after week? Why can't Bollywood go the Hollywood way and treat children's film as hardcore, high market entertainment? Why must our film makers give the tween and teen film market a step motherly treatment.... Sadly Satrangee Parachute fails to address any of these questions with its narrative that appeals neither to kids nor to adults."
References
External links
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Official trailer
2011 films
2010s Hindi-language films
Indian children's films
Films set in Mumbai
Films scored by Shamir Tandon
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