If that is not an issue, there have been other problems. The film, as usually happens, is not completely faithful to the book for although the script was approved by Khushwant, it is developing further as shooting progresses.

Still, remarked Sathyu: 'These villages don't seem to have changed much since Independence.' Sathyu (whose own link with Partition is the marvellous Garam Hawa), who plays Nooran's father.įilmed across Indore, Ropar and Derabassi - after Rooks undertook a whirlwind tour of 100 locations - much of the time was spent convincing villagers to allow modifications to their houses. If there is a coup, it is the casting of director M.S. Another familiar name, Zakir Hussain, is rumoured to be providing the music. The cast is impressive, a sort of get - together of the new parallel cinema stars, like Nirmal Pandey (as Juggut Singh alias Jagga) and Smriti Mishra (who plays Nooran, Jagga's Muslim fiancee).

Pandit, of Maachis fame, and (mainly) from the National Film Development Corporation. The rest of the funds come from Pan Pictures of R.V. Rooks, whose previous film Miss Betty's Children won a national award for a first film, has even helped finance the making of Train To Pakistan. The driving force appears to be the 39 - year - old Rooks, who read the book when she was 17 years old and whose father, an army man, she reveals, once escorted a train full of Hindu migrants from Pakistan. If Pakistan is battling over the making of Jinnah, in India, director Pamela Rooks is busy filming Khushwant Singh's moving novel, Train To Pakistan.Ĭonsiderably less hyped than Jinnah, not to mention considerably cheaper - it is supposed to be shot in five weeks for a mere Rs 1 crore - the film will be released just before, you guessed it, August 15. And filmmakers were hardly going to be left behind. Rooks, Mishra and cameraman Sunny Joseph on the setsThe 50th anniversary of the subcontinent's Independence has spawned, predictably, a slew of cultural events.

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