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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:13 pm 
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'I wanted them to play the National Anthem'

August 18, 2003


Kiron Kher, who won acclaim for her performance in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas, won the Best Actress Award for Khamosh Pani at the recent Locarno Film Festival.

The film is directed by Pakistani director Sabeeha Sumar.

On her way to Zurich to board a London flight where her husband Anupam Kher is shooting for Gurinder Chadha's Bride & Prejudice, Kiron could barely contain her excitement. "What really thrilled me was that I shared the award with Holly Hunter, who is one of Hollywood's best. When my name was announced, I wanted them to play the Indian national anthem as they do at the Olympics. It's a wonderful feeling. I wasn't even supposed to be at Locarno. I was to be with Anupam in London where he's shooting for Gurinder's film. The producers of Khamosh Pani wanted me at Locarno, but I had begged off because of a schedule in Mumbai. But that was cancelled, so I flew to Locarno. The entire unit of Khamosh Pani was at Locarno."




Khamosh Pani also won the topmost award at the Locarno festival: the Golden Leopard.

Kiran had shot for this German-French-Pakistani co-production in Pakistan last year. "The director had made some wonderful issue-based documentaries about women's rights. Since there were no direct flights to Pakistan, I flew from Mumbai to Dubai, from there into Islamabad and then by car to Vah. We shot at the Vah village, 130 kilometres from Peshawar.

"I play the main protagonist Veero or Ayesha, who lives in Pakistan and has an 18-year-old son. It is 1971, when Zia-ul-Haq hung Zulfikar Ali Bhutto [father of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto] and came into power. The Islamisation of Pakistan started vigorously. I play a Sikh woman who, at 16, was left behind in Pakistan during the riots and who refused to jump into the well and kill herself. She marries one of her abductors and settles down in Pakistan. Later, when the borders between the two countries are unsealed, Veero, now called Ayesha, runs into her brother who comes to Pakistan looking for his lost sister.

"What I found extremely interesting about this character was that it addresses women's empowerment. In third-world countries, all the choices for women are made by the men in their lives. Veero's father wants her to jump into a well, her brother wants her to return to India, her son wants her to renounce the Sikh religion because he's turning into an Islamic fundamentalist. My character is a Sufi. I love the way she explains the Quran. To her, reading the Quran five times a day isn't a mandatory means of going to Heaven. Her rationale is: Allah is merciful and only the good will go to Heaven. It's a very real film. I wore simple ethnic clothes and kept my hair open."

Kiron sees her presence in this film as a step forward in the improvement of Indo-Pak relations. "I don't think artistes should be confined to political borders. We should be free to work wherever we want. Khamosh Pani is such an important film. It's an anti-fundamentalist film shot in a fundamentalist state. Like charity, peace should also begin at home."

Kher missed out on all the popular and National Awards in India for her performance in Devdas. "I think that's kismet [fate]. Devdas is a film I will treasure always. As for Khamosh Pani, I hope people in India get to see it. The director Sabeeha Sumar is married to a Sri Lankan and lives in Delhi with her husband. Her husband is the film's co-producer. She commutes between India and Pakistan."

Kiron will return to India on August 27. "I hope I've made my country proud," she laughs.

http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/aug/18kiron.htm
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Aarkayne
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Anyone seen this movie yet? Sounds pretty interesting......

Here's another article...

http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/nov/03pani.htm
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Khamosh Paani made it into the Art Theatre Circuit.

It's playing at Bytown Cinema (over 800 seater) in Ottawa this week. Once it gets to Bytown, it's automatic at Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa a few weeks later. This film must have been to other US-Canadian Art Circuit Theatres as well, as Ottawa Bytown usually takes lead from other Art Ckt Theatres. It must have registered good attendance that it's showing for six 800 seater shows at Bytown.

http://www.cinemaclock.com/aw/ctha.aw?p ... &k=Bytowne

Bytowne
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tel. (613) 789-3456


Silent Waters - Eng. Subt. [1:39] Premiere 9/10
Fri: 8:55
Sat: 2:15, 7:00
Sun: 6:25
Mon: 6:45
Tue: 4:30

http://www.cinemaclock.com/aw/crva.aw/p ... aters.html

Original title: Khamosh Pani
Original lang.: Punjabi / Urdu
Country: Pakistan / France / Germany
Genre: Drama
Length: 1:39
Directed by: Sabiha Sumar
Written by: Sabiha Sumar
Starring: Kiron Kher, Aamir Ali Malik, Arsad Mahmud, Salman Shahid, Shilpa Shukla, Sarfaraz Ansari


9.0/10 (1 review)

Pakistan, 1979. General Zia-ul-Haq has imposed martial law and, within a few months, the country is decreed a Muslim state. Aïcha, a well-adjusted woman in her forties, devotes her life to the education of her eighteen year old son Salim, in the little village of Charkhi, in the Pakistani Pendjab. Salim is a quiet dreamer, secretly in love with the beautiful Zoubida. Aïcha's husband is dead and she makes ends meet on her widow's pension and by teaching the Koran to young girls. But the fast-moving political situation, fills Aïcha with anxiety, since her son is changing out of all recognition. Salim has been neglecting Zoubida, instead spending increasing amounts of time with a group of Muslim fundamentalists. But Aïcha soon has other concerns to deal with: her life is irrevocably changed by the arrival of some Sikh pilgrims, who have come from India to perform their devotions. One of them immediately begins to search for his sister, who was caught by Muslims in 1947, during the Partition of India and Pakistan. This man's desperate quest awakes agonising memories for Aïcha, relating to her own mysterious past and a secret that becomes too much to bear ...

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Arsh/ urbanlegend/ Ali:
Could you please add "KHAMOSH PAANI" in the thread title please.
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It was shown on UK TV on Channel 4 a couple of months ago ... it was a good movie. I recorded it on to DVD ... I figured that it was a keeper!
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here's a great review by Khalid Mohammed - http://ww1.mid-day.com/columns/khalid_mohammed/2004/december/98694.htm
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