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Directed by | Mehreen Jabbar |
Produced by | Javed Jabbar |
Written by | Javed Jabbar |
Screenplay by | Mohammad Ahmed |
Starring |
Rashid Farooqui Nandita Das Syed Fazal Hussain Maria Wasti Nouman Ijaz Hassan Niazi Adnan Shah Shahood Alvi Zhalay Sarhadi Saleem Mairaj Saife Hassan Sajid Shah |
Music by |
Debojyoti Mishra Surya Mitra Sarthak Sarkar Shiraj Hussain |
Cinematography | Sofian Khan |
Edited by | Aseem Sinha |
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Distributed by |
Geo Films Museum of Modern Art |
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Running time
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103 minutes |
Country | Pakistan |
Language | Urdu |
Budget | ₨60.0 crore (US$5.7 million) |
Box office | ₨3.0 crore (US$290,000) |
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.
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.