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A 7 year old Pakistani boy and his father belonging to the untouchable Hindu caste accidentally cross the border and spend years in an Indian jail while the mother on the other side doesn't know what has happened to them.
RAMCHAND PAKISTANI
Sunday 8 March [12.30] BAFTA
Screening followed by Q&A with Mehreen Jabbar
Director: Mehreen Jabbar
Cast: Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqui, Sayed Fazal Hussain
Pakistan: 103 mins, Urdu/Hindi with English subtitles, 2008
Based on actual events, Ramchand Pakistani is a moving story about a Pakistani
Hindu dalit boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from
their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war-like tension. The film explores
how an 8 year old child from Pakistan 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, which is hostile to his own. On the other side of the border, the
boy's mother, devastated by their sudden disappearance builds a new chapter of
her life, by her solitary struggle for sheer survival. Ramchand Pakistani tells the
extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman,
a man, and their son.
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