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Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh

Film1999121 min6.9/10 on TMDB

Directed by Shamim Ara, Manoj Punj

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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...Read moreLess

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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Cast & crew

Gurdas MannGurdas MannBoota Singh
Arun BakshiArun BakshiFaqeer at Boota's shrine
Amar NoorieAmar NoorieSanto (Guest appearance)
Darshan Aulakh
Darshan Aulakh
Guy who sold Zainab
B.N. SharmaB.N. SharmaZainab's father
Gick Grewal
Gick Grewal
Boota's village lady at marriage
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Screenplay
Suraj Sanim
Director
Shamim Ara
Director
Manoj Punj