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| Directed by | Mehreen Jabbar |
| Produced by | Javed Jabbar |
| Written by | Javed Jabbar |
| Screenplay by | Mohammad Ahmed |
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| Cinematography | Sofian Khan |
| Edited by | Aseem Sinha |
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103 minutes |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Language | Urdu |
| Budget | ₨0.60 crore (US$59,000) [1] |
| Box office | ₨6.50 crore (US$640,000) (Domestic) [2] |
Ramchand Pakistani (Urdu: رام چند پاکستانی) is an Urdu-language Pakistani drama film directed by Mehreen Jabbar and produced by Javed Jabbar.[3] The film features Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Syed Fazel Hussain, Maria Wasti and Noman Ijaz in lead roles.The film is based on a true story of a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through.[4] Ramchand Pakistani was also released in India.[5]
Plot
Champa (Nandita Das) is a 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. The film depicts the crossing of the Pakistan-India border, during a period (June 2002) of 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 (India), which is hostile to his own (Pakistan). Meanwhile, the wife-mother, devastated by their sudden disappearance builds a new chapter of her life, by her solitary struggle for sheer survival.
Cast
- Nandita Das as Champa
- Syed Fazal Hussain as Younger Ramchand
- Navaid Jabbar as Older Ramchand
- Rashid Farooqui as Shankar
- Maria Wasti as Kamla
- Nouman Ijaz as Abdullah
- Adnan Shah as Sharma
- Adarsh Ayaz as Moti
- Farooq Pario as Suresh
- Shahood Alvi as Asif Hussain
- Zhalay Sarhadi as Lakshmi
- Atif Badar as Lalu
- Saleem Mairaj as Vishesh
- Saif-e-Hasan as Murad
- Rao Saleem as Interrogator
- Karim Bux Baloch as Baloch
- Master Yaqub as Baba Gul
- Hassan Niazi as Deepak
- Kazim Raza as Professor
- Muhammad Rafiq as Bengali
- Sajid Shah as Inspector
- Iqbal Motilani as Maulvi
- Anis Chachar as Captain Saleem
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is composed by Debojyoti mishra and include the following songs:
| Track | Song | Singers | Composer | Duration |
| 01 | Teri Meri Preet | Shubha Mudgal | Debojyoti Mishra | 5:34 |
| 02 | Allah Megh De | Shubha Mudgal & Shafqat Amanat Ali | Debojyoti Mishra | 4:41 |
| 03 | Phir Wahi Raste | Shafqat Amanat Ali | Debojyoti Mishra | 5:52 |
| 04 | Khari Neem Key Neechay | mai bhagee | Debojyoti Mishra | 5:24 |
| 05 | Tarrin Paunda | Allan Fakir | Debojyoti Mishra | 6:09 |
| 06 | Meri Maat | Instrumental | Debojyoti Mishra | 4:19 |
Awards
The film won the following awards:
- FIPRESCI Prize from the International Federation of Film Critics at the Osian Film Festival, July, 2008
- Honourable Mention by the 13th Annual Satyajit Ray Award at the 2008 London Film Festival.
- Best Actor for Rashid Farooqi at the KaraFilm Festival, Pakistan, 2009
- Audience Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland, March 2009.
- Honourable Mention by the Eucumenical Jury at the Fribourg International Film Festival, March 2009.
- Honourable Mention by the E Changer Award at the Fribourg Int'l Film Festival, March 2009
- Ramchand Pakistani received a silver medal in the feature film category at the 2012 SAARC Film Awards.
- Rashid Farooqui received the award for best actor in the feature film at the 2012 SAARC Film Awards.
- Ramchand Pakistani won Best Film Award on Pakistan Media Award in 2010.
See also
- Gori temple, the site of Meri Maati song.
- Nagarparkar Bhodesar temple: the site of Tarrin Paunda song.
References
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External links
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Ramchand Pakistani at IMDb
- Interview: Director, Ramchand Pakistani
- Movie Review Ramchand Pakistani (2008)
- Detailed Analysis of Ramchand Pakistani
