Batwara 1947 Movie Review Rating:
Star Cast: Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Karan Deol, Shabana Azmi, Ali Fazal
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
What’s Good: The incisive script and message, and Shabana Azmi’s towering performance
What’s Bad: Intermittent spells of the ‘usual’ superhero in Sunny Deol
Loo Break: Don’t ‘Partition’ this narration
Watch or Not?: Surely yes!
Language: Hindi
Available On: Theatrical release
Runtime: 146 Minutes
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The time is India’s Partition. The wealthy Sikandar Mirza (Sunny Deol) and his family—wife Hamida (Preity Zinta), son Javed (Karan Deol), and daughter Nishaat (Kanikka Kapur)—are set to rejoice with India’s Independence when communal riots erupt and the celebrations are stymied. Left with no option but to leave (for good) for Lahore, Sikandar and his family get on board an overcrowded train, while Javed cannot enter the train along with their family friend Rashid and his clan.
Devastated, Sikandar, his wife, and daughter stay in a refugee camp in Lahore until a poet named Habib (Ali Fazal) gives them the home allotted to him by the authorities. That home, a massive 22-room mansion, is named Durga Nivas and originally belonged to an old Hindu lady named Mai (Shabana Azmi). Sikandar is unaware that the lady is still in residence. He then took all legal and emotional means possible to make her leave. But she insists that she will never leave until her son, Ratan (Khalid Siddiqui), returns, as he has gone missing with his wife and daughter.
Soon, the old woman endears herself to the Mirzas—first to Nishaat, and then to Hamida, and finally to Sikander. Meanwhile, Javed arrives there safely, and the Mirzas are overjoyed. Mai, a practicing Hindu, is also happy and blesses them. Later, Sikander comes to know that Mai has done something huge for him and, along with …read more
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