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8.2/10   451 votes
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Writers:
Chandra Prakash Dwivedi (additional dialogue)
Chandra Prakash Dwivedi (screenplay)
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Beyond boundries
Plot:
Hindustan (Urdu name for India) used to a vast territory and countries' like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
8 wins & 9 nominations more
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(4 articles)
Wish Urmila Matondkar on her birthday - News
 (From GlamSham. 3 February 2009, 10:30 AM, PST)

I feel I'm underutilised as an actor: Sanjay Suri
 (From BollywoodWorld. 3 December 2008, 1:55 AM, PST)

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Excellent! more (22 total)

Cast

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Urmila Matondkar ... Puro / Hamida
Manoj Bajpai ... Rashid

Sanjay Suri ... Ramchand
Sandali Sinha ... Lajjo
Priyanshu Chatterjee ... Trilok
Isha Koppikar ... Rajjo
Lillete Dubey ... Mrs. Mohanlal
Kulbhushan Kharbanda ... Mohanlal (Puro's dad)
Farida Jalal ... Mrs. Shyamlal
Alok Nath ... Shyamlal (Ramchand's dad)
Seema Biswas ... Mad woman
Sudha Shivpuri
Dina Pathak ... Rahim's aunt
Samar Jai Singh
Adil Rana
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Cage (International: English title) (informal title)
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Runtime:
188 min
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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent!, 16 February 2004
9/10
Author: Gaurang Khetan (grkhetan) from Fremont, CA

Pinjar is a genuinely good film, with great acting, good narrative, good presentation, touching emotions, etc.

It seems to me that the quality of films that Bollywood is producing is quite improving these days, and this film is one evidence.

No Bollywood movie that I can remember of made such an impact on me - I was literally thinking about the movie for hours - marvelling at the various emotional situations that test the human in a human.

The film rests on the great acting of Urmilla Matondkar, and also some from Manoj Bajpai. Urmilla plays a girl in North India in the background of the partition, and all troubles seem sweet if compared with the problems she happens to face.

A must-see film. A technically superior Bollywood product, which I feel is comparable to the best movies coming out of other countries in the world.

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