Mumbai, Aug 18: "I don’t think the film got the prize because it is political, but because it is very moving,’’ said actress Kiron Kher about the movie Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters), which won the top prize, the Golden Leopard, at the 56th Locarno film festival in Switzerland on Saturday.
The film is a Pakistani-French-German co-production directed by Sabiha Sumar, a Pakistani, and scripted by Paromita Vora, an Indian. “It is about the Punjabis left behind during the Partition riots of 1947. I play a woman who has been abducted and uprooted, whose brother comes looking for her. And it’s about her relations with her son, who turns fundamentalist.
“It was important for me to be part of the film because it is an anti-fundamentalist statement from a fundamentalist country,’’ said Ms Kher, who won the Best Actress award for her role in the film. She added, “It is important that the film be shown in India. I’m sure Indians will love it.’’
Bureau Report