Train To Pakistan - 1998

Story

The film is set in Mano Majra is a silent village in the border of India and Pakistan, close to the railway line near where it crosses the Sutlej River. The film develops around the love affair of small-time dacoit Jagga (Nirmal Pandey), with a local Muslim girl, Nooran (Smriti Mishra). Mano Majra incidentally was the original title of the book upon its release in 1956. The villagers are a mix of Sikh and Muslims, who live in harmony. The Sikhs own most of the land, and the Muslims work as labourers.

During the summer of 1947, when the Partition of India was taking place, the entire country was a hotbed for extremism and intolerance. The Muslims in India moved towards the newly formed Pakistan, and the Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan migrated to refugee camps in India. One day, a train arrives from Pakistan, which carries bodies of all the travellers who have been butchered while they departed from Pakistan. That is when this quiet village is changed forever