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To celebrate the 75th year of India’s Independence, Lallantop Films brings forth a documentary which delves into a confrontation of the past memoirs of Partition that divided the fate of the people in India- Pakistan.
The film explores the ideas of identity and nation borders breathing into the beating retreat ceremony on the Wagah-Attari border in Punjab. In doing so, Rajat Sain and Roohani walk closer to the Zero line and find out what remains unidentified in the village Muhar-Jamsher surrounded by Pakistan on all three sides.
While Khushhal Singh’s journey leaves us with a hope to cross a stale division sown in the land years ago, Inder Singh and Constable Manpreet Singh’s love for the land knows no boundaries. This is a story of coming together of a farmer’s life with a Jawan’s pride when he gives his all for the country. This is also a story trying to trace the lives partially exiled for months during war like situations.
The feeling of hyper-nationalism then becomes insignificant as a coexistence is claimed on this line zero. It is a humble attempt by us to look into the personal grief, conflict, and the various emotions felt by the characters’s lived reality on the border area. Watch the backstage blues of the BSF on this 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, and witness a parallel journey towards the line zero.
Remembering partiton.
Research | Script | Direction | Cinematography | Editing | Sound : Rajat Sain & Roohani
Camera Assistance: Amitesh Kumar
Graphics: Tarun Mahendru & Sachin Vashisth
Subtitles: Himanshu Tiwari, Sarwat Fatima, Oohini Mukhopadhyay, Zeishah Amlani
Our sincere thanks to: Border Security Force, India
Special thanks: Sweta Singh (India Today Group)
0:00 - Opening / Overview
5:12 - Partition / Muhar Jamsher Village
7:24 - Attari Border Morning / Rehearsals
15:44 - Farming beyond fencing
20:40 - Attari border ambience
25:45 - Beating the retreat at Attari
37:55 - Closing
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