Silent Waters
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 20, 2005
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Aamir Malik & Kiron Kher | |
Performer: | Shilpa Shukla, Arshud Mahmud & Salman Shahid | |
Directed by | Sabiha Sumar | |
Screenwriting by | Sabiha Sumar | |
Produced by | Sachithanandam Sathananthan, Philippe Avril, Helge Albers & Claudia Tronnier | |
Director of Photography: | Ralph Netzer |
Entertainment Reviews:
Sabiha Sumar's debut feature could scarcely be more relevant to Pakistan's present, or, given this country's history of backing such repressive regimes, to ours.
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Village Voice
Rating: 3/4 --
Although taking place 25 years in the past, director-writer Sabiha Sumar's debut feature has relevance in the world as we now know it.
New York Post
Sumar is a documentary maker by trade....She elicits a fine performance from Kiron Kher as the anguished mother.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/4 --
By the time you understand the meaning of its title, Sabiha Sumar's film has delivered an emotional punch.
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Miami Herald
Rating: 2.5/4 --
An interesting, if incomplete, picture of a community torn apart by religious zealotry.
Salt Lake Tribune
Rating: 3/4 --
The filmmakers provide a well-meaning, well-timed Pakistani portrait.
Newsday
Rating: 2/5 --
Silent Waters means well, but falls way short of its mark of enlightening the world to the plight of South Asian women in this period of history. It just isn't believable enough.
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Toronto Star
Product Description:
This gorgeously shot feature chronicles the lives of a mother and her teenage son in a rural Pakistani village in 1979. Saleem (Aamir Malik) is an aimless youth in love with local beauty Zubeida (Shilpa Shukla), and adored by his widowed mother, Ayesha (Kiron Kher). Life seems to flow in measured, bucolic beauty, but old and new trauma looms because of a pair of fundamentalist Muslim insurgents staying in the village. Their zealotry ignites a macho spark in Saleem and soon he is rejecting his mom for her Sufi philosophy, and Zubeida for seeing him outside of wedlock. Things get even worse with the arrival of some Sikh pilgrims, one of whom wants to find his lost sister. Anchored by Kiron Kher's moving performance, SILENT WATERS gradually evolves from a dreamy portrait of rural life (replete with Bollywood-esque wedding merriment) to a brutal history lesson. Viewers who are unfamiliar with the political time and place of this film are likely to be horrified to learn of the unconscionable cruelties visited on Muslim and Sikh women during the 1947 partitioning of Pakistan and after. Activist director Sabiha Sumar lets the story speak for itself, making this film both a moving, sociologically fascinating drama and a harrowing indictment of gender-based oppression.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 95,929
- UPC: 720229911740
- Shipping Weight: 0.30/lbs (approx)
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