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1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.
- Awards
- 8 wins & 2 nominations
Aamir Ali Malik
- Saleem
- (as Aamir Malik)
Navtej Singh Johar
- Jaswant
- (as Navtej Johar)
Arshad Mahmood
- Mehboob
- (as Arsad Mahmud)
Fareeha Jabeen
- Shabnam
- (as Fariha Jabeen)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaLead actor Aamir Malik later became addicted to drugs and alcohol and lived as a homeless vagrant in the streets of Karachi despite many attempts by friends and peers to help him. He died on January 6, 2016 in his hometown of Quetta, where friends had taken him the month prior to be hospitalized.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018)
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Awakening a Sleeping Giant
'Silent Waters'is consciously designed to be an issue-based movie. The subject seemed to follow a certain pattern in which women took the center stage in the narrative. Though, there were parallel tracks as well, but it was a perception developed out of simple observation, and not because there was any particular ideology to propound.
The film is based on actual events that took place when the Indian sub-continent was partitioned in 1947 into two new states - India and Pakistan. It was a time of intense violence. In pre-partition Punjab, Muslims and Sikhs had lived side-by-side, but during the partition men from both sides of the religious divide slaughtered each other. Each looted the other's property, which included their respective women: little distinction was made between robbing cattle and abducting women. Muslim men abducted Sikh women while Sikh men abducted Muslim women. The women were raped, bought, sold and, sometimes, murdered; some ended up marrying their abductors.
This film has a definite Punjabi feel, set on the borders of Pakistan in 1979 - the year that president Zia Ul-Haq introduced Islamic laws into what was meant to be a secular country.
Silent Waters is chillingly humane drama that will stay with you for a long time.
The film is based on actual events that took place when the Indian sub-continent was partitioned in 1947 into two new states - India and Pakistan. It was a time of intense violence. In pre-partition Punjab, Muslims and Sikhs had lived side-by-side, but during the partition men from both sides of the religious divide slaughtered each other. Each looted the other's property, which included their respective women: little distinction was made between robbing cattle and abducting women. Muslim men abducted Sikh women while Sikh men abducted Muslim women. The women were raped, bought, sold and, sometimes, murdered; some ended up marrying their abductors.
This film has a definite Punjabi feel, set on the borders of Pakistan in 1979 - the year that president Zia Ul-Haq introduced Islamic laws into what was meant to be a secular country.
Silent Waters is chillingly humane drama that will stay with you for a long time.
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- El silencio del agua
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- Gross US & Canada
- $7,384
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,617
- Oct 10, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $7,384
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