Synopsis

Director: Mehreen Jabbar

RAMCHAND PAKISTANI is a true story from 2002 concerning the accidental crossing of the Pakistan-Indian border during a period of extreme, war-like tension between the two countries by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the 'untouchable' (Dalit) caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a man, and their son. A child from Pakistan learns to cope with the trauma of forced separation from his mother while being held prisoner with his father in the jail of a country that is hostile to his own. On the other side of the border, the wife-mother, devastated by their sudden disappearance builds a new chapter of her life, by her solitary struggle for sheer survival.