Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh

Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh

121 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 1, 1999

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

121 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 1, 1999

Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh
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...
IMDb rating 8.2
Producers
Original title Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh
Directors Shamim Ara, Manoj Punj
Writers

Cast

Gurdas Mann

as Boota Singh

Divya Dutta

as Zainab

Gurkirtan Chauhan

as Boota's Uncle

Raghubir Yadav

as Ramzaani

Arun Bakshi

as Faqeer at Boota's shrine

Amar Noorie

as Santo (Guest appearance)

Darshan Aulakh

as Guy who sold Zainab

B.N. Sharma

as Zainab's father

Jassi Flora

as Boota's cousin

Gick Grewal

as Boota's village lady at marriage