Pinjar (Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, 2003)
On DVD at home with Lucía on 21 May 2009 at about 22:00.
I know so little about Partition that for me Pinjar would have been interesting even if everything else in it was not. Pinjar gave me some small taste for what that period must have been like (although I certainly don’t know enough about the period to know how well Pinjar speaks to that experience), and from my perspective the characters and story were pretty interesting, partly because they are so far removed from anything I know.
I like how Rashid becomes one of the most sympathetic of all the characters, despite how horrific his original crime. Manoj Bajpai gave a memorable performance in that role as a crazed stalker who transforms into a burdened and tortured soul who waits and waits for an opportunity to undo or make up for what cannot be undone.
Jun-Dai: B-
Lucía: B-
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