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...

Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh (1999)

★ 6.9/10 January 1, 1999 121 min

DramaRomance

Director: Shamim Ara, Manoj Punj  ·  Writer: Suraj Sanim

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...

Director

Shamim Ara Manoj Punj

Cast

Gurdas Mann Boota Singh Divya Dutta Zainab Gurkirtan Chauhan Boota's Uncle Raghubir Yadav Ramzaani Arun Bakshi Faqeer at Boota's shrine Amar Noorie Santo (Guest appearance) Darshan Aulakh Guy who sold Zainab B.N. Sharma Zainab's father Jassi Flora Boota's cousin Gick Grewal Boota's village lady at marriage Gurcharan Dardi Hari Om Jalota