Pinjar (2003)
This is one haunting movie. Its depressing. Its heart - wrending. Life isn't a bed of roses. It reminded of movies like Khuda ke liye, Matrubhoomi, Gadar, Partition and Mrityudand. All brilliant and thought - provoking.
This movie is based on anovel by Amrita Pritam, picturing the partition and the Hindu - Muslim rivalry in a very neutral yet humanistic point of view. A Muslim boy kidnaps a Hindu girl owing to some age - old dispute between families. Now, the family wont accept her back, afraid of the society. But thus Muslim boy is ready to marry her and treat her with utmost dignity. The story reveolves around this man being filled with guilt for what he did to the Hindu girl, and the girl finally coming to terms with the tragedy of her life... and accepting it. She ends up helping her relatives, who once threw her out and her husband helps her, in hope for redemption.
Urmila Matondkar plays the Hindu girl with ease. She is a very good actress and received awards for this movie. But for me, the show stealer was Manoj Bajpai, the Muslim boy. What a performance! Every movement, every dialogue, every look is filled with guilt. I think, this is his masterpiece performance. He has done some very good work like Aks, Shool, Satya and Tamanna.
The movie scores on depection of brutal reality. And the history of violence.
Rate - 3/5
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