| Ramchand Pakistani (2008) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2008 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Ramchand Pakistani is derived from a true story concerning the accidental crossing of the Pakistan-Indian 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: Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Maria Wasti, Shaood Alvi, Syed Fazal Hussain, Nouman Ijaz, Adarsh Ayaz, Atif Badar, Karim Bux Baloch, Salim Mairaj, Farooq Pareo, Adnan Shah, Zhalay Sharhadi |
