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If Pinjar takes a step forward on the gender front, it is deplorably regressive on the communal one.That several (generally positive) Indian reviews of the film praised its “fair” and “even-handed” treatment of this issue seems to me sadly indicative of just how skewed “mainstream” perspectives have become in saffronized post-'90s Hindustan.
While Pinjar is still readable and compelling in this translation because of the strength of the original piece, the translation is awful. Also, what editor decided to pair Pinjar with Yaatri, some godawful story about a Stranger-esque character and his existential meanderings through life.
Pinjar revolves around Puro, a Hindu Punjabi woman, who is abducted by Rashid as a result of a generation-old vendetta which persisted. As Puro’s brother, Trilok, and her fiancé, Ramchand, secretly search for her without the approval of their respective families, Puro struggles to survive through the trauma of isolation and ostracization.
Pinjar is a true story of a woman who was mistreated in the name of religion, who was kidnapped by a man only to take revenge of his ancestor's insult. This is a story of a girl who faced separation from her family, then disowning by her own family in fear of social stigma, changing her religion and marrying her own kidnapper.
Pinjar film is based on a Punjabi novel by the same, written by Amrita Pritam. Hindustan (Urdu name for India) used to a vast territory and countries' like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangla Desh ...
Pinjar tells the story of Puro, a young woman of Hindu background, finding herself living a lovely life - in a period circling the time of the Partition of 1947 - with her family.
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