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Ramchand Pakistani is a Pakistanais film of genre Drama directed by Mehreen Jabbar released in USA on 21 april 2010 with Nandita Das
Ramchand Pakistani (2008)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 21 april 2010
Length 1h43
Directed by Mehreen Jabbar
OriginPakistan
Genres Drama
Rating74%
Ramchand Pakistani (Urdu: رام چند پاکستانی) is an Urdu-language Pakistani drama film directed by Mehreen Jabbar and produced by Javed Jabbar. The film features Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Syed Fazel Hussain, Maria Wasti and Noman Ijaz in lead roles.The film is based on a true story of a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through. Ramchand Pakistani was also released in India.
Synopsis
Champa (Nandita Das) is a Hindu woman who is left desolate when her young son and husband disappear one day from their village at the Pakistan-India border near Nagarparkar, in Tharparkar. The film depicts the crossing of the Pakistan-India border, during a period (June 2002) of war-like tension between the two countries, by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the 'untouchable' dalit caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a man, and their son.Actors
Nandita Das
(Champa)
Maria Wasti
(Kamla)
Noman Ijaz
(Abdullah)
Shahood Alvi
(Asif Hussain)
Zhalay Sarhadi
(Lakshmi)
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