In the words of the lead actress- Kirron Kher, Khamosh Pani “deals with women and how few choices they have in life. How all their choices are related to the men in their lives-whether their fathers, or their brothers or husbands, ultimately their sons. They are answerable to all of them…they seem to be the keepers of their morals and their values.”
The nation is the sentimental, ideological and collective sense of belonging towards a territory by a group of people who have a shared history and culture, while the state is the political entity. It becomes problematic when the people constituting a nation start to see their territory as only a ‘political’ entity. Almost on the same lines, a political and “moral” judgment is made by both the …show more content…
Everyone around her loves her but none know about her background. She was living with her son as just another Pakistani Muslim. 32 years later, a group of Sikh pilgrims come to pray at holy shrines in their village. One of them, his brother, comes to find and take her back home to the dying father, only to find her widowed with a son. The movie ends with Ayesha jumping into a well, unable to get rid of her past life. The movie acts as a visual account to the numerous accounts of such women provided by Kamla Bhasin and Ritu …show more content…
The brother came from India looking for Veero, years later. She had moved on with her life, gotten married to her abductor and converted to Islam. The same way, Indians came looking for abandoned women after partition, most of whom had already started another life, another family. The brother wants her to come back because their father was dying and he wanted to meet her before he dies. This is the same father who had asked her to jump into a well lest she would get raped. Nobody knows what will happen once she gets back to India, if ever. The same was the case with the women left behind in Pakistan. They had a better life now and going to their family could not have been a feasible option because there was no guarantee or assurance that they would be accepted. The dying father is in contrast to the newly formed nation, i.e., India. While one was the dying wish of a father, the other can be seen as the first attempt of a father to restore his manhood. Reconciliation with the family or nation is what drives the social workers to help them but what not considered is whether there would be acceptance or outright rejection/shame. An eerily similar case like that of Ayesha was encountered by Kamlaben Patel where the parents felt that sacrificing the life of a young girl was necessary and acceptable to save the
The nation is the sentimental, ideological and collective sense of belonging towards a territory by a group of people who have a shared history and culture, while the state is the political entity. It becomes problematic when the people constituting a nation start to see their territory as only a ‘political’ entity. Almost on the same lines, a political and “moral” judgment is made by both the …show more content…
Everyone around her loves her but none know about her background. She was living with her son as just another Pakistani Muslim. 32 years later, a group of Sikh pilgrims come to pray at holy shrines in their village. One of them, his brother, comes to find and take her back home to the dying father, only to find her widowed with a son. The movie ends with Ayesha jumping into a well, unable to get rid of her past life. The movie acts as a visual account to the numerous accounts of such women provided by Kamla Bhasin and Ritu …show more content…
The brother came from India looking for Veero, years later. She had moved on with her life, gotten married to her abductor and converted to Islam. The same way, Indians came looking for abandoned women after partition, most of whom had already started another life, another family. The brother wants her to come back because their father was dying and he wanted to meet her before he dies. This is the same father who had asked her to jump into a well lest she would get raped. Nobody knows what will happen once she gets back to India, if ever. The same was the case with the women left behind in Pakistan. They had a better life now and going to their family could not have been a feasible option because there was no guarantee or assurance that they would be accepted. The dying father is in contrast to the newly formed nation, i.e., India. While one was the dying wish of a father, the other can be seen as the first attempt of a father to restore his manhood. Reconciliation with the family or nation is what drives the social workers to help them but what not considered is whether there would be acceptance or outright rejection/shame. An eerily similar case like that of Ayesha was encountered by Kamlaben Patel where the parents felt that sacrificing the life of a young girl was necessary and acceptable to save the