Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed.īoth tortured. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame. Muslims said the Hindus had planned and started the killing. The summer before, communal riots, precipitated by reports of the proposed division of the country into a Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan, had broken out in Calcutta, and within a few months the death toll had mounted to several thousand. Some of them had good reason to feel that they had sinned. People began to say that God was punishing them for their sins. For weeks, the sparse clouds cast only shadows. No one could remember when the monsoon had been so late. It was hotter than usual, and drier and dustier. Even the weather had a different feel in India that year. The summer of 1947 was not like other Indian summers. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974, but returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the storming of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army. Khushwant Singh was a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. His autobiography, Truth, Love and a Little Malice, was published in 2002. He is also the author of several books which include the novels I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, Delhi, The Company of Women and Burial at Sea the classic two-volume A History of the Sikhs and a number of translations and non-fiction books on Sikh religion and culture, Delhi, nature, current affairs and Urdu poetry. He has been founder-editor of Yojana, and editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India, the National Herald and the Hindustan Times. Khushwant Singh is India’s best-known writer and columnist. Amidst conflicting loyalties, it is left to Juggut Singh to redeem himself and reclaim peace for his village.įirst published in 1956, Train to Pakistan is a classic of modern Indian fiction. When a train arrives, carrying the bodies of dead Sikhs, the village is transformed into a battlefield, and neither the magistrate nor the police are able to stem the rising tide of violence. Then, a local money-lender is murdered, and suspicion falls upon Juggut Singh, the village gangster who is in love with a Muslim girl. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. I liked the powerful ending as, without derailing from the main story, it avoided the 'cliched art-film' ending (I thought it would end with graphic images of the bloodbath).It is the summer of 1947. It could have been better but it's not bad. But, having not read the book (which I intend to) I was generally pleased by 'Train to Pakistan'. Comparisons have often been made between books and movies and usually books win. Much of the supporting cast were a little too dramatic.
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Divya Dutta does alright but the dubbing (clearly someone else's voice) does hinder the acting (as the voice sounds too childlike for a professional prostitute). He seems to have taken his pants off for no significant reason as his character isn't given much scope. Sadly, Rajit Kapoor's Iqbal suffers even though the actor makes the best of what he has.
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He's a little loud with dramatics but overall it's a good effort. Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh English SRS Audio Sandbox 32 bit 64 bit India year book free download pdf Kabir Montag kommen die Fenster-adds DEXCLOCK V WITH rookie rki. Nirmal Pandey provides some comic relief.
Mohan Agase as the ignorant head of the village conveys the complexity of his character with complete ease especially in the scenes where he reflects himself as the man he he has become compared to who he used to be. Some characters did require development, especially Iqbal. At some point, the film seemed to move at a sluggish pace until it swiftly picks up in the last half hour. I haven't read the original novel (I didn't know it was an adaptation until afterwards) but many are disappointed mainly due of the lack of development). However, I think it adds to the rawness of the hot-headed villagers. Some viewers have disapproved the use of foul language. None of the bodies are shown from close range and yet the scene is so impactive.
In one very effective scene we see corpses float on a river as the villagers silently stare. Even if there are few such scenes they are used minimally. I liked her direction and she really put effort into presenting the time and the horror of the war without flooding the film with graphic images and sounding preachy. There have been several movies on this subject but Rooks takes a different turn. Rooks's 'Train to Pakistan' tells the story of a small Punjab village during the partition in 1947.
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