Murder at Monkey Hill

Murder at Monkey Hill
Directed by	Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Produced by	FTII
Written by	Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Starring	Anjali Paigankar Dilip Dhawan Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Cinematography	Nadeem Khan Sharad Navale Ali Kanal
Edited by	Renu Saluja
Release date	1976
Running time	20 min
Language	Hindi, English

Murder at Monkey Hill is 1976 Indian film written and directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The short film in Black-and-white was made by Vidhu Vinod Chopra as his final project while doing his diploma at FTII. Vinod Chopra, himself, played the lead role with Anjali Paigankar while Dilip Dhawan and Mehmood made short appearances in the film.

A professional hitman Akhtar is hired by Seth to murder a girl Prabhi. But as Akhtar charms her to get near her to kill her he actually falls in love with her. At loss to honour his commitment to murder for which he has taken one lakh rupee and finding himself unable to kill her, he pays a woodcutter to do that. As the woodcutter chases Prabhi with an axe in his hand, the film comes to an abrupt end without showing if he succeeds or not.

The film won the National Film Award for Best Short Experimental Film and the Guru Dutt Memorial Award for Best Student Film. It also won recognition at the Montreal and Leipzig film festivals.

...
Wikipedia