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((short description|2003 film by Sabiha Sumar))
((Use dmy dates|date=March 2019))
((Use Indian English|date=March 2019))
((Infobox film
| name           = Khamosh Pani
| image          = Sw cover 2.jpg
| caption        = Khamosh Pani movie poster
| director       = [[Sabiha Sumar]]
| producer       = Peter Hermann
| writer         = [[Paromita Vohra]]
| starring       = [[Kirron Kher]]<br />[[Shilpa Shukla]]<br />[[Aamir Ali Malik]]<br>[[Adnan Shah Tipu]]<br>[[Rehan Sheikh]]
| distributor    = Shringar Films (India)
| released       = ((Film date|df=yes|2003|08|15|Locarno Film Festival|2004|10|08|Pakistan))
| runtime        = 105 minutes
| country        = ((ubl|India|Pakistan))
| language       = Punjabi
))

'''''Khamosh Pani''''' ([[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]: ((Nastaliq|خاموش پانی)) <small>([[Shahmukhi alphabet|Shahmukhi]])</small>, ਖ਼ਾਮੋਸ਼ ਪਾਨੀ <small>([[Gurmukhi]])</small>; ''Silent Waters'') is a 2003 [[India|Indo]]-[[Pakistan]]i film about a widowed mother and her young son living in a Punjabi village as it undergoes radical changes during the late 1970s.

Shot in a Pakistani village, the film was also released in [[India]]. It won seven awards, including [[Golden Leopard]] (Best Film), Best Actress, and Best Direction at the 56th [[Locarno International Film Festival]], [[Switzerland]].<ref name=BBC>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3159257.stm Swiss honour Pakistani movie] BBC News, Published 18 August 2003, Retrieved 11 March 2021</ref>

==Plot==
In 1979 in Charkhi,<ref name=peterhermann>On location shooting actually done in Wah village, [[Hasan Abdal]], [[Rawalpindi]], Northern Punjab. See ((cite web |url=https://peterhermann.net/khamoshpani_e.htm |title=Silent Waters - Khamosh Pani (a film review)|access-date=11 March 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331153012/http://peterhermann.net/khamoshpani_e.htm |archive-date=2016-03-31 ))</ref> a village in the [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab province]] of Pakistan, Ayesha (a middle-aged widow) lives with her son Saleem, a teenager in love with schoolgirl Zubeida. Ayesha supports herself and Saleem with her late husband's pension and by giving lessons in the [[Qur'an]] to village girls.<ref>((Cite web |date=2018-06-14 |title=Khamosh Paani: When Kirron Kher aced feminism |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/khamosh-paani-when-kirron-kher-taught-us-all-a-lesson-in-feminism/story-yk7dPc5ASao9xZ5ILkkV9N.html |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en))</ref> She refuses to go to the village well, and her neighbor's daughters draw water for her. Villagers like Amin, the postman, are troubled by the recent hanging of former prime minister [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] by [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]], the new military ruler who has promised to enforce [[Islamic law]] and encourages Islamic missionary and political groups. Two Islamic activists come to the village and, supported by the village [[choudhury]], spread their message of Islamic zealotry and gain recruits to fight the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]]. The older men in the village are disdainful of their intolerance and puritanism, cynical about Zia's postponement of elections and angry when the activists accuse them of being traitors. The activists gain a following amongst the village youth, including Saleem. They cajole and intimidate Saleem into attending a political meeting in [[Rawalpindi]], where the speakers exhort the audience to commit themselves to [[jihad]] for the creation of an Islamic Pakistani state. Attracted by their zeal and call to serve Islam and Pakistan, Saleem (who wants to be more than a village farmer) breaks up with Zubeida and becomes estranged from his mother. Ayesha unsuccessfully tries to discourage him from following the Islamists. Saleem helps build a wall around the girls' school to "protect" them and enforces the closing of village shops during [[Salah|namaaz]] in line with [[Zia-ul-Haq's Islamisation]], and Ayesha and Zubeida are alarmed by his transformation.

After an agreement between the Indian and Pakistani governments, a group of [[Sikh]] pilgrims from India, arrives in Pakistan to visit Sikh shrines. They come to Charkhi, the village they were forced to flee during the bloody [[partition of India]] in 1947. A pilgrim wants to look for his sister, who he believes survived the violence. The visitors have a mixed reception: a warm welcome from the village barber and hostility from the growing number of young Muslim zealots. Saleem is embarrassed that his mother sent food to the pilgrims and teaches the village girls that non-Muslims can go to heaven. The pilgrim asks some villagers, including Amin, if they knew if a Sikh woman survived the riots. They say they do not know, but Amin later visits the pilgrim's hut and tells him to look for the woman who never goes to the well. Following the girls who bring water to her house, the pilgrim finds Ayesha. When he asks her if she knows a Sikh woman who survived the riots, she anxiously tells him to leave. Saleem sees the pilgrim talking to his mother, and hears him call her "Veero" and tell her that her father wanted to see her before he died. Saleem is shocked to learn that Ayesha was Veero, a Sikh; in a flashback, she was amongst a group of village Sikh women lined up to jump into the village well rather than be raped by a Muslim mob in 1947.<ref>((Cite web |last=Kamal |first=Ajmal |date=2005-07-14 |title=Khamosh Pani: The re-writer of history |url=https://www.himalmag.com/reviews/the-re-writer-of-history |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=Himal Southasian |language=en))</ref> The Sikh men (including her father) want her to jump, but Veero runs away and is later caught, raped and imprisoned. Her rapist, remorseful, offers to marry her and she begins life as a Muslim.

Saleem reports this to his friends, who demand that Ayesha make a public declaration of her Islamic faith; she refuses and is shunned by the villagers, including her best friends. For the first time in over thirty years, she must fetch her own water. Ayesha meets her Sikh brother at the well but refuses to accompany him, condemning her father for encouraging her to commit suicide and asking how he would feel knowing that she was living as a Muslim. Her isolation increases, with only Zubeida keeping in touch with her. Realizing that she cannot escape her past, Ayesha jumps into the well.<ref>((Cite journal |last=Khan |first=Shahnaz |date=2009 |title=Floating on Silent Waters: Religion, Nationalism, and Dislocated Women in Khamosh Pani |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40338789 |journal=Meridians |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=130–152 |issn=1536-6936))</ref> Saleem buries her, gathers her papers and belongings and throws them into the river.

In 2002 in Rawalpindi, Zubeida remembers Ayesha. In the street she sees a bearded Saleem, secretary-general of an Islamist organisation, answering questions about the compatibility of Islamic law with democracy.

==Cast==
((Cast listing|
* [[Kirron Kher]] as Ayesha<ref name=peterhermann/>
* [[Aamir Ali Malik]] as Saleem<ref name=peterhermann/>
* [[Navtej Johar]] as Jaswant
* [[Shilpa Shukla]] as Zubeida
* [[Arshad Mehmood (composer)|Arshad Mehmood]] as Mehboob
* [[Salman Shahid]] as Amin
* Sarfaraz Ansari as Rashid
* [[Abid Ali (actor)|Abid Ali]] as Chaudhary
* [[Adnan Shah]] as Mazhar
* [[Khursheed Shahid]] as Singer 
* [[Fareeha Jabeen]] as Shabnam
* Shazim Ashraf as Zubair
* [[Rehan Sheikh]] as Afshan
* Barkat Ullah as Mubarak Bhai
* [[Nisar Qadri]] as Haji Munnavar
* Saba Malik as Courtesan
* [[Madan Gopal Singh]] as Sikh Pilgram
* Gurjot Singh Mann as Sikh Pilgram
* Suhair Fariha Khan as Veero
))

== Production ==
The role of Ayesha Khan was earlier offered to veteran Pakistani actress [[Bushra Ansari]] who rejected it due to her personal reasons.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.dawnnews.tv/news/1172861/|title=((Nq|انیل کپور کی بیوی کے کردار کی پیش کش ہوئی تھی، بشریٰ انصاری))|website=Dawn News|date=2021-11-20))</ref>

== Reception ==
[[Taran Adarsh]] of indiafm.com wrote that "Very rarely do you come across a film that reflects the moods of the years gone by. KHAMOSH PANI ['Silent Waters'], directed by Sabiha Sumar, is one such film. The thought-provoking film transports you to Pakistan during 1979, with frequent flashes of 1947 injected in the narrative".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20041204120550/http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/review.php?cid=2425</ref>

==Awards==
* 2003: Won Top Prize at [[Locarno International Film Festival]]<ref name=BBC/><ref name=Dawn>[https://www.dawn.com/news/135327 Pakistani film wins top prize in Switzerland] Dawn (newspaper), Published 17 August 2003, Retrieved 11 March 2021</ref>
** [[Best Actress Award (Locarno International Film Festival)|Best Actress]]: [[Kirron Kher]]<ref name=BBC/>
** Don Quixote Award - Special Mention: [[Sabiha Sumar]]
** Golden Leopard (Best Film): Sabiha Sumar<ref name=peterhermann/><ref name=BBC/><ref name=Dawn/>
** Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Sabiha Sumar
** Youth Jury Award - Special Mention: Sabiha Sumar<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451601/awards Awards] ''[[Internet Movie Database]]''.</ref>
* 2003: [[Nantes Three Continents Festival]]
** Audience Award: Sabiha Sumar
** Silver Montgolfiere: Sabiha Sumar
* 2003: [[Karachi International Film Festival]]
** Special Jurors' Selection Ciepie
** Best Actress in a Leading Role: [[Kirron Kher]]<ref name=BBC/><ref name=Dawn/><ref>((cite news | url=http://www.sify.com/movies/visiting-pakistan-was-like-a-pilgrimage-kiron-kher-news-bollywood-kkfvKCighihsi.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329001137/http://www.sify.com/movies/visiting-pakistan-was-like-a-pilgrimage-kiron-kher-news-bollywood-kkfvKCighihsi.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=29 March 2019 | title=Visiting Pakistan was like a pilgrimage: Kiron Kher | website=[[Sify]] | date=21 July 2004 | author=Indo-Asian News Service | access-date=28 March 2019 ))</ref>
** Best Screenplay: Paromita Vohra

==See also==
* [[List of Asian historical drama films]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IMDb title|0357283))

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