"Marriage Story" is no "Kramer vs. Kramer"
"Marriage Story" is a narrow-minded and heavy-handed attempt to examine the complexity of human relationships.
Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh
The film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the villagers tell him he should either marry her or leave her in a camp where people bound for Pakistan are located. But he decides that since he is far older, he would better leave her at the camp. As he is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there, she asks Buta Singh, if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two Rotis per day to keep her alive...
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The film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the villagers tell him he should either marry her or leave her in a camp where people bound for Pakistan are located. But he decides that since he is far older, he would better leave her at the camp. As he is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there, she asks Buta Singh, if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two Rotis per day to keep her alive...
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Genre:Drama, Romance
Written By:Suraj Sanim
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Runtime:121 minutes
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Cast
Shamim Ara, Manoj Punj
Director
Gurdas Mann
Boota Singh
Divya Dutta
Zainab
Gurkirtan Chauhan
Boota's Uncle
Raghubir Yadav
Ramzaani
Arun Bakshi
Faqeer at Boota's shrine
Amar Noorie
Santo (Guest appearance)
Darshan Aulakh
Guy who sold Zainab
B.N. Sharma
Zainab's father
Jassi Flora
Boota's cousin
Gick Grewal
Boota's village lady at marriage
Gurcharan Dardi
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