Chhotu: A Tale of Partition and Love
(By Varud Gupta)
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Winner of Two Comic-Con India Awards, including ‘Best Writer’
The year is 1947. The British are slowly marking their departure from the country. And while Partition looms large over India, Chhotu, a student-cum-paranthe-cook in the dusty gullies of Chandni Chowk, has other things on his mind-like feeling the first flushes of love of his crush, Heer, the new girl at school.
When he finally decides to make a move, Chhotu soon finds the town's aloo has suddenly gone missing, reluctantly embroiling himself into the world of corruption, crime and dons. As he struggles to understand what freedom truly means, Chhotu realizes one thing is for certain-that his world, and the world of those around him, is about to change forever.
Set against the backdrop of Partition and the horrors that followed, Chhotu is a coming-of-age story of an unlikely hero and a parable of a past that doesn't feel too removed from the present.
“All in all, a beautiful amalgamation of love, exploration, politics, and tonnes of Bollywood masala, Chhotu is definitely not one to be missed.” - Homegrown
“Wild, imaginative and tender, it may be only through love stories like Chhotu that we can return to our darkest hour and begin reparations for another kind of future to which we can all belong.” - Vazira Zamindar, author of The Long Partition
“With sharp irony and crackling humor, it offers a poignant understanding of a time when fear, bigotry, political machinations, and violence overtook everyday life.” - Gyan Prakash, author of Emergency Chronicles
“Storyboarded with crisp cinematographic frames, zoomorphic characters enact the socio-economic and communal chaos that followed the partition with stylishly wry humour and depth...” - The Hindu
"Part novel, part art and equal parts tender love and boundless suffering... The graphic artistry sparkles in black and white, supplementing the fiction that is actually a very clever allegory on what most people would call a weird, shameful chapter of our history." - Outlook Magazine”
