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Urmila Matondkar, Sanjay Suri, Sandali Sinha, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Manoj Vajpayee, Isha Koppikar, Kulbhushan..
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| Director: Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi
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| Producer: Lucky Star Entertainment
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| Music: Uttam Singh
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'Pinjar' as the title goes the movie has no soul to touch your heart.
'Pinjar'(skeleton), is based on a novel of the same name, by Amrita Pritam, is set in the Partition era, and is about the sad position women occupied in our society then, and continue to occupy today. It sticks to the story convincingly, without compromising, but without a soul.
Story
Puro (Urmila Matondkar), daughter of the wealthy Mohanlal (Kulbushan Kharbanda) and his wife (Lillette Dubey), leads a happy life in Amritsar. Her family returns to its village, Chatwal, west of Amritsar, where her marriage is arranged with Shyamlal's (Alok Nath, once again essaying the quintessential Punjabi lala) son, Ramchand (Sanjay Suri). Puro's dreams of a happy future are shattered when, one evening, she is kidnapped by Rashid (Manoj Bajpai). He is looking to settle a family score that goes back two generations. Rashid, who has by now fallen in love with Puro, confines her to his house in the same village. When he tells her they are getting married, a desperate Puro manages to escape. But an even crueler fate awaits her: her parents tell her they cannot take her back. When a heartbroken Puro heads to the village well, she finds Rashid waiting to take her home. They get married but for, Puro, this marriage is akin to death. She wastes away, becoming a pinjar (skeleton) who exists but has ceased to live.
Elsewhere, in a continuing effort to save the family izzat, Puro's sister Rajjo (Ishaa Koppikar in a cameo that goes beyond item songs) is offered in marriage to Ramchand. But, in a deviation from the book, Ramchand does not agree, so Rajjo is married to Ramchand's cousin, while Puro's brother, Trilok (Priyanshu Chatterjee), marries Ramchand's sister, Lajo (Sandali Sinha). Puro cannot forget Ramchand and her family and dreams of being re-united with them. Trilok, who has never given up his search for his sister, returns to Chatwal. He soon finds out that she was kidnapped by Rashid and burns Rashid's farm, destroying the harvest. Rashid is broken but refuses to seek revenge, pointing out that if someone's sister had been kidnapped, this was the least he would do in anger. Partition is announced and everyone's world comes crashing down. Ramchand's family is forced to flee eastwards, towards India. On the way, they are attacked by a Muslim mob and a pregnant Lajo, who had returned to her parental home to deliver her first child, is kidnapped by a Muslim. Puro meets Ramchand at a refugee camp for Hindus and he pleads with her to find his missing sister. Rashid promises to help Puro so that he may redeem himself in her eyes. Puro finds the kidnapped Lajo and helps her escape safely back to her family. The scenes that follow form the crux of the movie.
Performance
Director Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, whose claim to fame so far was the commended Chanakya TV series in the early nineties, has managed good performances from his stellar line-up. Urmila, Bajpai, sexy starlet Ishaa Kopikkar, upcoming actors Priyanshu Chatterjee and Sandali Sinha of Tum Bin and the suave Sanjay Suri, all get into the characters well.
Music
Music by Uttam Singh is unimpressive, but blends in well with the movie.
verdict
Pinjar has a good storyline but the screenplay and direction by Dwivedi could not do any justice to the movie. The movie can be watched for its good story, excellent cinematography and good performances by the star cast.
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