Read all the Latest News, Breaking News and Coronavirus News here. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in. Midnight’s Children is an eye opener in many ways is rooted in reality. In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million peopleMuslims and Hindus and Sikhswere in flight. Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel must have been hard to turn into a nuanced two-hour film, which it is.
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This movie was directed by Deepa Mehta and stars Satya Bhabha in a lead role. Two babies born on the same day India attained independence, are swapped at the hospital. The film was made to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Indian Independence but Train to Pakistan with its humanist message. Women were the biggest victims of the 1947 partition violence and this film deals with the delicate subject matter with absolute sensitivity. This movie was directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi and stars Urmila Matondkar and Manoj Bajpayee in the pivotal roles. Pinjar tells the story of a Hindu woman who is abducted by a Muslim man due to a rivalry between their families. It was also a millennial kids’ initiation to partition films. Even though Gadar is a massy entertainer where we see Deol’s larger-than-life personality, it is a love story at heart.
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Rooks' directorial style, for instance, which is so non - interfering that it has led to complaints about a communication gap and a lack of rapport between her and the cast.Directed by Anil Sharma and starring Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel, this movie revolves around a Sikh truck driver who falls in love with a rich Muslim woman at the time of partition when communal riots among Sikhs and Muslims were at its peak. It is a small village situated near to border in Punjab. If that is not an issue, there have been other problems. Train to Pakistan is a prominent novel by Khushwant Singh presents the pre-and post-partition situations in Mano Majra. The film, as usually happens, is not completely faithful to the book for although the script was approved by Khushwant, it is developing further as shooting progresses. Still, remarked Sathyu: "These villages don't seem to have changed much since Independence." Sathyu (whose own link with Partition is the marvellous Garam Hawa), who plays Nooran's father.įilmed across Indore, Ropar and Derabassi - after Rooks undertook a whirlwind tour of 100 locations - much of the time was spent convincing villagers to allow modifications to their houses. If there is a coup, it is the casting of director M.S.
Another familiar name, Zakir Hussain, is rumoured to be providing the music. The cast is impressive, a sort of get - together of the new parallel cinema stars, like Nirmal Pandey (as Juggut Singh alias Jagga) and Smriti Mishra (who plays Nooran, Jagga's Muslim fiancee). I liked her direction and she really put effort into presenting the time and the horror of the war without flooding the film with graphic images and sounding preachy.
There have been several movies on this subject but Rooks takes a different turn. Pandit, of Maachis fame, and (mainly) from the National Film Development Corporation. Rooks's 'Train to Pakistan' tells the story of a small Punjab village during the partition in 1947.
The rest of the funds come from Pan Pictures of R.V. Rooks, whose previous film Miss Betty's Children won a national award for a first film, has even helped finance the making of Train To Pakistan.
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The driving force appears to be the 39 - year - old Rooks, who read the book when she was 17 years old and whose father, an army man, she reveals, once escorted a train full of Hindu migrants from Pakistan. If Pakistan is battling over the making of Jinnah, in India, director Pamela Rooks is busy filming Khushwant Singh's moving novel, Train To Pakistan.Ĭonsiderably less hyped than Jinnah, not to mention considerably cheaper - it is supposed to be shot in five weeks for a mere Rs 1 crore - the film will be released just before, you guessed it, August 15. And filmmakers were hardly going to be left behind. Rooks, Mishra and cameraman Sunny Joseph on the setsThe 50th anniversary of the subcontinent's Independence has spawned, predictably, a slew of cultural events.