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Pamela Rooks is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 1958
Pamela Rooks (1958 – October 1, 2010) was an Indian film director and screenwriter, most known for the film, Train to Pakistan (1998) set in Partition of India and based on Khushwant Singh’s novel, it was screened at several international film festivals. Apart from it she also made award-winning films like, Miss Beatty's Children (1992) and Dance Like a Man (2003) and several documentaries.
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Train to Pakistan (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Pamela Rooks
Genres Drama
Actors Nirmal Pandey, Rajit Kapur, Mohan Agashe, Divya Dutta, Amardeep Jha, Mangal Dhillon
Rating65%
The film is set in Mano Majra which is a silent village on the border of India and Pakistan, close to where the railway line crosses the Sutlej River. The film develops around the love affair of small-time dacoit Jagga (Nirmal Pandey), with a local Muslim girl, Nooran (Smriti Mishra). Mano Majra incidentally was the original title of the book upon its release in 1956. The villagers are a mix of Sikhs and Muslims, who live in harmony. The Sikhs own most of the land, and the Muslims work as labourers. During the summer of 1947, when the Partition of India was taking place, the entire country was a hotbed for extremism and intolerance. The Muslims in India moved towards the newly formed Pakistan, and the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan migrated to refugee camps in India. One day, a train arrives from Pakistan, which carries bodies of all the travellers who have been butchered while they tried to depart from Pakistan. That is when this quiet village is changed forever.
Miss Beatty's Children (1992)
, 1h52Directed by Pamela Rooks
Genres Drama
Actors Jenny Seagrove, Faith Brook, D. W. Moffett, Barry John, Rituraj Singh
Rating60%
The film is set in 1936 in South India, when Jane, an English schoolteacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a Christian missionary, who runs a mission school, and works towards young girls from being sold into temple prostitution. She has Kamla Devi, a senior temple woman as her opponent. Once when Mabel has gone away Jane finds herself trapped in a local controversy. She rescues an ANglo-Indian girl and takes her to Ooty, but back in the town she is accused of kidnapping. However she manages to find help with an American doctor, Alan Chandler. Eventually she adopts Amber, and rescues several more children.
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Train to Pakistan (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Pamela Rooks
Genres Drama
Actors Nirmal Pandey, Rajit Kapur, Mohan Agashe, Divya Dutta, Amardeep Jha, Mangal Dhillon
Rating65%
The film is set in Mano Majra which is a silent village on the border of India and Pakistan, close to where the railway line crosses the Sutlej River. The film develops around the love affair of small-time dacoit Jagga (Nirmal Pandey), with a local Muslim girl, Nooran (Smriti Mishra). Mano Majra incidentally was the original title of the book upon its release in 1956. The villagers are a mix of Sikhs and Muslims, who live in harmony. The Sikhs own most of the land, and the Muslims work as labourers. During the summer of 1947, when the Partition of India was taking place, the entire country was a hotbed for extremism and intolerance. The Muslims in India moved towards the newly formed Pakistan, and the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan migrated to refugee camps in India. One day, a train arrives from Pakistan, which carries bodies of all the travellers who have been butchered while they tried to depart from Pakistan. That is when this quiet village is changed forever.
Miss Beatty's Children (1992)
, 1h52Directed by Pamela Rooks
Genres Drama
Actors Jenny Seagrove, Faith Brook, D. W. Moffett, Barry John, Rituraj Singh
Roles Writer
Rating60%
The film is set in 1936 in South India, when Jane, an English schoolteacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a Christian missionary, who runs a mission school, and works towards young girls from being sold into temple prostitution. She has Kamla Devi, a senior temple woman as her opponent. Once when Mabel has gone away Jane finds herself trapped in a local controversy. She rescues an ANglo-Indian girl and takes her to Ooty, but back in the town she is accused of kidnapping. However she manages to find help with an American doctor, Alan Chandler. Eventually she adopts Amber, and rescues several more children.
Production
Train to Pakistan (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Pamela Rooks
Genres Drama
Actors Nirmal Pandey, Rajit Kapur, Mohan Agashe, Divya Dutta, Amardeep Jha, Mangal Dhillon
Roles Producer
Rating65%
The film is set in Mano Majra which is a silent village on the border of India and Pakistan, close to where the railway line crosses the Sutlej River. The film develops around the love affair of small-time dacoit Jagga (Nirmal Pandey), with a local Muslim girl, Nooran (Smriti Mishra). Mano Majra incidentally was the original title of the book upon its release in 1956. The villagers are a mix of Sikhs and Muslims, who live in harmony. The Sikhs own most of the land, and the Muslims work as labourers. During the summer of 1947, when the Partition of India was taking place, the entire country was a hotbed for extremism and intolerance. The Muslims in India moved towards the newly formed Pakistan, and the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan migrated to refugee camps in India. One day, a train arrives from Pakistan, which carries bodies of all the travellers who have been butchered while they tried to depart from Pakistan. That is when this quiet village is changed forever.