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Release Date: 2004

Cast: Aamir Ali, Kirron Kher, Safdar Ali, Navtej Singh Johar, Sarfaraz Ansari, Tanveer Ahmad, Arshad Mehmood, Shilpa Shukla, Quratul Ain, Salman Shahid

Categories: Movies, Family Drama, Political drama, World cinema

Khamosh Pani (Urdu: خاموش پانی; lit. Silent Waters) is a 2003 French/German production about a widowed mother and her young son set in a late 1970s village in Punjab, Pakistan which is coming under radical influence. The film was released in India too. It was shot in a village in Pakistan and won 7 awards, including Golden Leopard (Best Film), Best Actress and Best Direction at the 56th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland. The story opens in 1979 in the village of Charkhi in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Ayesha is a middle-aged widow whose life is centred around... MORE

Khamosh Pani (Urdu: خاموش پانی; lit. Silent Waters) is a 2003 French/German production about a widowed mother and her young son set in a late 1970s village in Punjab, Pakistan which is coming under radical influence. The film was released in India too. It was shot in a village in Pakistan and won 7 awards, including Golden Leopard (Best Film), Best Actress and Best Direction at the 56th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland. The story opens in 1979 in the village of Charkhi in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Ayesha is a middle-aged widow whose life is centred around her only son, the teenager Saleem, who is in love with Zubeida, a teenage village schoolgirl. Ayesha manages to support herself and her son by her late husband's pension and by giving lessons in the Qur'an to village girls. Generally well-liked and regarded, the only odd thing about Ayesha is that she refuses to go to the village well, having her neighbor's daughters draw water for her. Some villagers such as Amin, the postman, are troubled by the recent hanging of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by the new military ruler, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq, who has promised to enforce Islamic law and encourages LESS