Summary:
While partition looms large, Chhotu, a student-cum-paranthe-cook in Chandni Chowk, has other things on his mind-like feeling the first flushes of love with his crush. As he struggles to understand what freedom truly means, Chhotu realises that his world, and the world of those around him, is about to change forever. “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,” says Varud Gupta, who has worked on Chhotu along with his second cousin, Ayushi Rastogi . For their research, they wandering through Chandni Chowk, and started thinking about placing the story in the past incarnation of the place: on the cusp of partition. Sometimes you just need to open the pandora’s box and that’s what we hope to do with this story.”.