Shaheed-E-Mohabbat
| Shaheed-E-Mohabbat (Boota Singh) | |
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| Directed by | Manoj Punj Shamim Ara |
| Produced by | Manjeet Maan |
| Written by | A True Story |
| Screenplay by | Suraj Sanim |
| Based on | A true story during the Partition by 1947 |
| Starring | Gurdas Maan Divya Dutta Arun Bakshi Raghuvir Yadav B.N. Sharma Yograj Chedha |
| Music by | Amar Haldipur |
| Editing by | Omkarnath Bhakri |
| Release date(s) | January 1999 |
| Running time | 130 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Punjabi |
Shaheed-E-Mohabbat (Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹੀਦ-ਏ-ਮੁਹੱਬਤ) is a National Award winning Punjabi movie based on a true story directed by Manoj Punj and produced by Manjeet Maan, starring Gurdas Maan, Divya Dutta, Chetana Das and Arun Bakshi in lead roles.
The movie was an international hit. It was screened at the 1999 Vancouver International Film Festival, International Film Festival of India and many more.
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[edit] Plot
The film is set in 1947.
A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties, Boota Singh, returns to his village in Jalandhar from the Burma front after World War II. A hope to have a family of his own yet lurks in a corner of his heart. A trader assures him that if he could raise Rs. 2000/- he would buy a young bride for him from UP. Boota starts saving every penny.
[edit] Boota Singh saves a Muslim girl
India got freedom in 1947 and Pakistan was born; riots begins on both sides. Boota's village comes in the grip of riots.
One day while working in his fields a beautiful Muslim girl, chasing by the vengeful locals comes to him for help. The youths demands the girl or Rs. 2000/-. Boota could shake them off only after giving them his life's savings. His hopes to settle down by raising dowry money are shattered when he needs to use his savings to rescue the Muslim girl, Zainab. With nowhere to go she stays with Boota.
[edit] Boota and Zainab get married
The villagers objects that he can't keep her home like that: He should either marry her or leave her in a camp, where people bound for Pakistan live. Boota decides that, since he is far older, he should leave her at the camp. He is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there. Zainab, who has learned about the sacrifice he made for her and is touched by his simplicity, asks Boota if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two rotis per day to keep her alive. Boota Singh and Zainab fall in love and get married. Boota's life transforms overnight. Then they have a baby girl. Boota Singh is pretty happy, matrimonially speaking; he is leading a pleasant life.
[edit] The end
An uncle of Boota, who was scheming that Boota would die unmarried and the family property will goes to him, becomes envious of his marriage with Zainab. When in 1952 India and Pakistan agree to deport the women left behind in the riots, he informs the police that there is such Muslim woman in their village. In Boota's absence police forcibly dump Zainab into a truck bound for a refugee camp (leaving the child behind).
And then Zainab is sent to her parents' village: Barki (Pakistan). Boota sells all his land and goes along with his child to Pakistan illegally. He is quickly arrested and brought before a judge who is quite willing to free him if his wife owns up. Under pressure from her family, she backs off.
A disappointed and mournful Boota jumps with his daughter before an oncoming train. He dies; miraculously, his daughter survives. Pakistani youth, overcome by this, hails him "Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh" (Martyr-in-Love, Boota Singh) and erect a memorial and a trust in his name.
[edit] Cast and crew
- Cast
- Gurdas Maan as Boota/Buta Singh
- Divya Dutta as Zainab (and Boota Singh and Zainab's daughter at the end)
- Chetana Das as Boota's mother
- Manjeet Kullar as Santo
- Gurkirtan as Boota's uncle
- Arun Bakshi as person at Boota's Qabr (telling the story)
- Amrik Singh
- Amolak Singh
- Darshan Aulakh
- Hari Om Jalota
- Crew
- Director: Manoj Punj
- Producer: Manjeet Maan
- Choreographer: Kala Singh
- Editor: Omkarnath Bhakri
- Sound designer: Narinder Singh
- Screenplay: Suraj Sanim
- Art director: Gyan Singh
- Production designer: Ajay Pal Singh
- Director of photography: Pramod Mittal
- Costume designer: Ramesh Salvi
[edit] Music and soundtrack
The music director is Amar Haldipur and the playback singers are Gurdas Maan, Asha Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Karaamat Ali Khan and Amar Noori as a guest singer. Amar Haldipur made his best. The movie has six original tracks:
- "Ishq Ni Darrda Maut Kolon," sung by Karaamat Ali Khan
- "Eh Kaisi Rutt Aayi" sung by Gurdas Maan
- "Meri Chunni Da Chamke," sung by Asha Bhosle, Anuradha Paudwal and Gurdas Maan
- "Gaddiye Ni Der Na Karin," sung by Gurdas Maan
- "Main Rowan Tarle Paawan," sung by Asha Bhosle and Gurdas Maan
- "Aseen Tere Shehar Nu," sung by Gurdas Maan
- "Ishq Da Rutba" sung by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
