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Ramchand Pakistani
Movie poster for Ramchand Pakistani
Directed byMehreen Jabbar
Written byJaved Jabbar
Produced byJaved Jabbar
StarringNandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Syed Fazel Hussain, Maria Wasti, Noman Ijaz
CinematographySofian Khan
Edited byAseem Sinha
Music byDebatyoti Mishra
Release date
October 2, 2008
Running time
103 min
Country Pakistan
LanguageUrdu

Ramchand Pakistani is a Pakistani Urdu film that tells a true story.

Recently Mehreen Jabbar, one of Pakistan’s outstanding young directors[citation needed], who has directed and produced a number of highly acclaimed, award-winning TV serials[citation needed] and plays, including New York Stories, Pehchaan, Kahaniyaan and Putli Ghar, completed her first directorial venture into big-screen cinema, called Ramchand Pakistani. The film is in Urdu but for international audiences it will be sub-titled in English and other foreign languages. Nandita plays Champa, a Pakistani Hindu woman who is left desolate when her young son and husband disappear one day from their village at the Pakistan-India border near Nagarparkar, in Tharparkar. Nandita Das is the only non-Pakistani actor in the large cast comprising well-known Pakistani TV and stage personalities including Rashid Farooqi, Noman Aijaz, Maria Wasti, Zhalay Sarhadi, Syed Fazal Ahmed, (who plays the title role) Farooq Pario, Shahood Alvi, Adarsh Ayaz, Salim Mairaj, Tipu, and Navaid Jabbar (no relation to the producer or director).

The film was released in Pakistan and India in September 2008. Screenplay by Mohammad Ahmed and written and produced by Javed Jabbar. The music director is Debajyoti Mishra, lyrics by Anwar Maqsood and the songs are sung by Shuba Mudgal and Shafqat Amanat Ali. The cinematographer is Sofian Khan, the associate producer is Mariam Mukaty, and the creative consultant is Sonia Rehman Qureshi.

Plot

Ramchand Pakistani is derived from a true story concerning the accidental crossing of the India-Pakistan border during a period (June 2002) of extreme, war-like tension between the two countries by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the 'untouchable' (Dalit) caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a man, and their son.

The singular theme of the film is how a child from Pakistan aged eight years learns to cope with the trauma of forced separation from his mother while being held prisoner, along with his father in the jail of a country i.e. India, which is hostile to his own, while on the other side of the border, the wife-mother, devastated by their sudden disappearance builds a new chapter of her life, by her solitary struggle for sheer survival.

The film portrays the lives of a family that is at the bottom of a discriminatory religious ladder and an insensitive social system, which is nevertheless tolerant, inclusive and pluralist. The irony is compounded by the fact that such a family becomes hostage to the acrimonious political relationship between two neighbor-states poised on the brink of war.

Cast

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