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Pinjar
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0828970085496
Format: PAL
Label: Net Effect Media
Languages: Hindi (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Urdu (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Unknown), Hindi (Unknown), English (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Net Effect Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Net Effect Media
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Running Time: 183 unknown-units
Studio: Net Effect Media
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Editorial Review:
Pinjar is a saga of human strength during trying times. A saga, that is far from being the story of victims. The film actually interrogates not only but how we know it. Pinjar is the strength and hope that epitomizes the way many people responded to the brutal past. Based on novel by the veteran writer Amrita Pritam, the film Pinjar takes history into an unexpected sphere. The film is the metaphorical representation of the partition. The story of the division of lives seen and experienced by a young woman, Puro. Where we know the recorded facts in the history, Pinjar revisits the spirit of that time. The desire to live, to combat the circumstances, the will to change the world and suffering for anyone untouched by the mayhem. Puro is the symbol of undaunted strength and determination. Like Puro, the women's struggle during this time was through silence which eventually transformed in to the silent movement where the Puros' refused to become helpless victims to the crossfire of polity. Puro like many other women during that time had dreams and desires. She too loved life and was content with the small pleasures that come with it. And one incident in her life saw her staring in the face of death. A slow death which was forcing her to survive, like a skeleton. Till, she derived inspired inspiration and reason to live, because she could not see the plight of other women around her. Puro's mission and inner strength are very poignant nuances the film highlights. While there were wide spread riots, there were people who still hoped in love and Puro's undaunted spirit and love broke the shackles of mayhem and misery.
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Another great film from a genre (India Pakistan Partition) that teeters on the cusp of being throughly worn out. So many films have been made on this topic that one may begin to think, "Oh, please not another Partition film.", but this one is quite refreshing with its creative story and directing/acting. You may or may not like the ending, but the sad topic of India and Pakistan's partition is one that makes it difficult to find happy endings. It simply isn't black and white and Pinjar does justice ... Read More
Rating:  - Indian cinema at its finest
A tense account of what happens to a young Hindu woman kidnapped by a Muslim in an act of family revenge, at the time of India's partition. Her struggles to find a reason to live and her evolving relationship with the kidnapper/husband unfold onscreen as traumatic political history unfolds around them. Intense, haunting and moving drama, excellent acting by the principals, great cinematography.
Urmila has been known more for her looks and dancing than her acting, and in this film she is ... Read More
Rating:  - Pinjar DVD
Arrival--very timely
disappointed that the DVD has few skips in it.
I will try cleaning it & hopefully they are minor.
Rating: - "Nothing For The Daughter"
Note: Hindi with English subtitles.
An honest, poignant tale set in Pakistan just prior to the 1947 partition of Pakistan from India. Puro (Urmila Matondkar), a young Hindi girl is kidnapped shortly before her wedding by Rashid (Manoj Bajpai) a Muslim man from a neighboring village. The kidnapping is in retaliation of a wrong commited some years earlier.
In spite of the grief felt by Puro's family the Father refuses to go to the authorities and fight for her release. After all ... Read More
Rating: - Mutual Captives
"Pinjar" portrays the life of a young Hindu girl named Puro as it unfolds during the separation of Pakistan from India. A Mulsim man named Rashid kidnaps her the night before her wedding as an act of revenge against her father. As planned, Puro's kidnapping brings her family into social disgrace, and they refuse to accept her back once she has been violated; she has no choice but to marry Rashid. While it is obvious that Puro is an innocent victim of the vengeance between the two families, it is less ... Read More
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