Shadows in the Dark 1999

Shadows in the Dark

HD 10 104 minutes
Young filmmaker Pankaj Butalia directs this sweeping film about ill-fated love set against the epic canvas of India's partition into Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistan. The film opens with Lajma, a beautiful school teacher with greying hair, leaving Pakistan for her childhood home in India. There she discovers that the home is in ruin, her aging aunt is half senile, and her cousin Gautam is bitter and defeated. Flashback to 1947 when India splits in two -- the police force a proud old Muslim man, along with his grieving daughter-in-law, to take in a couple of impoverished Hindus, Chand and Bhagwati, into their large home. Later, Chand's mute sister Lajjo arrives with her young daughter Lajma in tow. Suffering from some unnamed past trauma, Lajjo is eventually shipped off to an asylum, leaving Lajma with her uncle. Later still, Lajma, Chand's son Gautam and their neighbor's son Jamal all live and play with each other in Chand's vast complex.

Movie Similars

Movie Recommendations

HD

Lord of the Streets

2022 Movie
HD

An Ideal Father

2024 Movie
HD

Dune

2020 Movie
HD

Hunters

2021 Movie
HD

Killer of Men

2022 Movie
HD

1

2020 Movie
HD

way

2012 Movie
HD

Grey Eyes

2018 Movie
HD

Granit

2021 Movie
HD

Overhaul

2023 Movie
HD

The Benetón Family

2024 Movie
HD

Old Man Junior

2024 Movie