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Pinjar Movie Review

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Recently while watching TV, I suddenly hooked on to a channel featuring movie Pinjar . The movie was so serious and heart rendering that left me speechless and shocked. Pinjar or Skeleton as the name suggests is based on the adaptation from the novel written by Amrita Pritam. The movie shows the real plight suffered by the people from both side of the border (India-Pakistan) during partition without being biased. The story catches my eye as I could relate to the plight my family faced during the same time when fearlessly massacre was happening and every family was looking for a way out to of the country to other land; Hindus and Punjabis to India and Muslims to Pakistan. There were many such novels and movies featured that era, the time when ruthlessly females were raped, houses lit on fire, kids butchered and both the sects run into a never ending fight. In this story Urmila Matondkar plays role of Puro and Manoj Bajpai of Rasheed, respectively. Puro's bliss is shatter