Shadows in the Dark

Top 5 Billed Cast

Subrat Dutta
Subrat Dutta

Kitu Gidwani
Kitu Gidwani

Mandakini Goswami
Mandakini Goswami

Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah

Loveleen Tandan
Loveleen Tandan

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    Young filmmaker Pankaj Butalia directs this sweeping film about ill-fated love set against the epic canvas of India's partition into Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistan. The film opens with Lajma, a beautiful school teacher with greying hair, leaving Pakistan for her childhood home in India. There she discovers that the home is in ruin, her aging aunt is half senile, and her cousin Gautam is bitter and defeated. Flashback to 1947 when India splits in two -- the police force a proud old Muslim man, along with his grieving daughter-in-law, to take in a couple of impoverished Hindus, Chand and Bhagwati, into their large home. Later, Chand's mute sister Lajjo arrives with her young daughter Lajma in tow. Suffering from some unnamed past trauma, Lajjo is eventually shipped off to an asylum, leaving Lajma with her uncle. Later still, Lajma, Chand's son Gautam and their neighbor's son Jamal all live and play with each other in Chand's vast complex.

  • Release Date

    1999-09-21

  • Average

    10

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    हिन्दी

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