Ramchand Pakistani – 10 (Last)
Ramchand Pakistani is a Pakistani Urdu film that tells a true story about a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through.
Nandita Das plays Champa, a Pakistani 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. Nandita Das is the only non-Pakistani actor in the large cast comprising well-known Pakistani TV and stage personalities including Rashid Farooqi, Noman Aijaz, Maria Wasti, Zhalay Sarhadi, Syed Fazal Ahmed, (who plays the title role) Farooq Pario, Shahood Alvi, Adarsh Ayaz, Salim Mairaj, Tipu, and Navaid Jabbar (no relation to the producer or director).
A rare collaboration between artists from India and Pakistan gives us a film in which human values triumph. Ramchand Pakistani takes the difficult route as it celebrates that the people of the two countries have much that unites them. A delicate subject deserves delicate treatment, and the film provides this treatment. It seldom picks a side as it presents the true story of a Hindu family living in Muslim Pakistan, by the India-Pakistan border.
Directed by Mehreen Jabbar, written by her father Javed Jabbar, and with music by Debajyoti Mishra, it is an excellent example of how a diverse cast and crew can deliver with credibility an excellent product of film on issues they might not agree on. Hit play and read on. More on the song below.




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