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Movie: Batwara 1947 Cast: Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Ali Fazal, Karan Deol, Shabana Azmi Director: Rajkumar Santoshi Rating: 4.5 stars Batwara 1947 Review: There is a moment in *Batwara 1947* when you realise that Rajkumar Santoshi is not really making a film about who won or lost in 1947. He is interested in something much more difficult: what happens to ordinary people when suddenly they are told that the neighbour they trusted yesterday belongs to the “other” side today. That is where Batwara 1947 finds its heart. On the surface, this is a large period drama mounted on the canvas of Partition. There are crowded streets, fear, displacement, religious frenzy and the uncertainty of a newly divided land. But Santoshi keeps pulling us away from history-book headlines and towards people. A home that someone refuses to leave. A mother waiting for a son who may never return. A family discovering that compassion can sometimes demand more courage than violence. And standing at the centre of all this is Sunny Deol as Sikandar Mirza. We have spent so much time discussing Sunny Deol’s “comeback” that perhaps we have missed the more interesting story. He is no longer making a comeback. He is entering a fascinating phase as an actor. Sikandar has the authority we associate with Sunny Deol, and Santoshi naturally gives him dialogues that only that voice can carry. But the performance is not built merely around volume or physical power. Some of Sunny’s finest moments here arrive when he says very little. His affection for Mai, his anger at the madness unfolding around him and his determination not to surrender his humanity are communicated through restraint. Perhaps that is why Sikandar …read more
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