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Jun 10, 2021 · Pinjar is a clever reconstruction of the Ramayana myth, with Puro as Sita, whose marriage to Ram(chand) is hindered by the "Muslim Ravana" who abducts her. The film is able to upturn this mythologisation, which was a prevalent post-partition Hindu interpretation of the abducted Hindu woman as the pure and sacred Sita corrupted by the Muslim "other".
Oct 24, 2021 · On the 18 year anniversary of her critically-acclaimed period drama Pinjar, actor Urmila Matondkar Sunday said the film continues to be a relevant portrayal of how women are treated in society Directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, the 2003 film was based on poet and novelist Amrita Pritam’s 1950 Punjabi novel of the same name.
Pinjar is such an important novel precisely because of how it conceives of the status of women. Pritam set out to construct a narrative of Partition from the women's point of view. This meant that ...
Oct 22, 2003 · In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in a new country as the borders between India and Pakistan are drawn. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi. Director, Screenplay. Amrita Pritam.
Pinjar means skeleton with neither a face, nor mind, nor will, nor identity, nor dreams, nor inner emotions, nor feelings. It is just a cage where Pooro lives her life with suffering and miseries. Amrita critically explores the way in which destiny of Pooro eventually becomes the fate of thousands of women at the time of partition.
The novel Pinjar is a masterpiece,,the writing style,the dialogues and the vocabulary of Punnjabi language is just amazing. Read more. One person found this helpful.
Amrita Pritam is a prolific and distinguished writer of. Punjabi Literature. She was born on 31st Augu st 1919 at. Gujranwala in Punjab, which is now in Pakistan. Her. father was a Sikh preacher ...
