PINJAR, the film by Dr.Chandraprakash Dwivedi based on Amrita Pritam’s novel is worth a watch. The clothes worn during that time, the houses, the lands is depicted so realistically, you actually feel that you have gone to that era.
The film is about the struggle during partition, the chaos, the helplessness etc. The songs are melodious and well picturised.
Urmila Matondkar in the role of ’’Puro’’, the character about whom the film is about portrays her part very well. Its quite a break from her usual glamorous roles both for her as well as for the audience. Manoj Bajpai in the role of ’’Rashid’’ is superb. The portrayal of brother-sister relationship(’’Puro’’ and ’’Trilok’’ in particular) is heart rending.
There is one depiction which is hard to digest. That is when ’’Puro’’ returns home leaving Rashid(Manoj Bajpai) who is responsible for her kidnapping, her parents though happy to see her after a long time, are not ready to keep her in thier home. They explain to her that they would be killed if people come to know about it as she had stayed with a man from the other community for so many days. Understandable, but this coming from a doting father’s mouth who loved his daughter very much and a mother who shed innumerable tears remembering her daughter and now when she has ACTUALLY got her daughter back does not make any attempt to make her husband agree to make thier daughter stay back is hard to digest. But that is taken care of as her loving brother Trilok wants to find his sister no matter what.
In the end when Ramchand(Sanjay Suri) with whom Puru was supposed to be married agrees to accept and marry her and Rashid tells Puru to go back to Ramchand is handled so well that it brings tears to the eyes. A portrayal of true love by both ’’Ramchand’’ and ’’Rashid’’, so true that no matter whom she chooses among the two we would feel sad for the other.I will not tell to whom Puru goes back to in the end as that would reveal the suspense.
The pace of the narration could have been quickened as the film seems to drag in between. However its a film not to be missed.