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Chabila

Anil Amrut Bhalerao

Chabila

Directed By

2024

Duration

106 minutes

Tradionally, Labhan Community has one job - work in stone mines and, stay away from civilisation, near the mountains in a commune. Due to their lack of connection with outer world, they have remaind uneducated and backward, for generations. A mother, Jana wants to change this. She doesn't want her son Ganya to suffer the same fate as them. She wants, and does send him to school. But her husband feels otherwise. Every child of Ganya's age is working and earning more for family, as it is the need of survival. In an unfortunate incident, Jana succumbs to death. Now Ganya has no option but to work in mine with his father. It is then he realises why his mother sent him to school, uneasy, he cannot work there. His father understands the dilemma and decides to resume his school. What fate awaits them, is anyone's guess.

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