Ramchand Pakistani is a Pakistani Urdu film that tells a true story about a boy who inadvertently crosses the border between Pakistan and India and the following ordeal that his family has to go through.
Synopsis: Nandita Das plays Champa, a Hindu woman who is left desolate when her young son and husband disappear one day from their village at the Pakistan-India border near Nagarparkar, in Tharparkar. Nandita Das is the only non-Pakistani actor in the large cast comprising well-known Pakistani TV and stage personalities including Rashid Farooqi, Noman Aijaz, Maria Wasti, Zhalay Sarhadi, Syed Fazal Ahmed, (who plays the title role) Farooq Pario, Shahood Alvi, Adarsh Ayaz, Salim Mairaj, Tipu, and Navaid Jabbar (no relation to the producer or director).
Ramchaal crossing of the Pakistan-India border during a period (June 2002) of extreme, war-like tension between the two countries by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the 'untouchable' Dalit caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a man, and their son.
The singular theme of the film is how a child from Pakistan aged eight years learns to cope with the trauma of forced separation from his mother while being held prisoner, along with his father in the jail of a country i.e. India, which is hostile to his own, while on the other side of the border, the wife-mother, devastated by their sudden disappearance builds a new chapter of her life, by her solitary struggle for sheer survival.
The film portrays a true picture of how the people living close to the border unknowingly cross border and how they are used by both the nations as pawns to negotiate and prove each others point.
Plot: This is a simple story, told very simply. Ramchand is a 8 year old Pakistani Hindu living near the border to India with his parents. He has a rather petulant anger, and on such occasion, crosses over the border inadvertently and is caught by Indian forces. His father sees him wander over and follows him, to be also captured. His mom realizes this the next day with the help of friends, but is powerless to do anything about it, other than spend her days waiting for them to return.
At first, the prisoner father-son duo find it tough to adjust, but they settle down eventually. The movie spans a period of 4 to 5 years before they are released. The strength of the movie is in the telling of the tale, aided by the power of the uniformly strong acting and delicate direction. With such an ominous premise, the fact that neither country is vilified is a huge relief, if slightly incredible.
Cast: Nandita Das as Champa, Syed Fazal Hussain as Younger Ramchand, Navaid Jabbar as Older Ramchand, Rashid Farooqui as Shankar, Maria Wasti as Kamla, Nouman Ijaz as Abdullah, Adnan Shah as Sharma, Adarsh Ayaz as Moti, Farooq Pario as Suresh, Shahood Alvi as Asif Hussain, Zhaley Sarhadi as Lakshmi, Atif Badar as Lalu, Saleem Mairaj as Vishesh, Saif-e-Hasan as Murad, Rao Saleem as Interrogator, Border Security Force, India, Karim Bux Baloch as Baloch, Master Yaqub as Baba Gul, Hassan Niazi as Deepak, Kazim Raza as Professor, Muhammad Rafiq as Bengali, Sajid Shah as Inspector, Border Security Force, India, Iqbal Motilani as Maulvi and Anis Chachar as Captain Saleem.
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