Tamas (film)

Tamas lit. Darkness is a 1988 period television film written and directed by Govind Nihalani. It is based on the Hindi novel of the same name by Bhisham Sahni 1974, which won the author the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975. Set in the backdrop of riotstricken Pakistan at the time of Partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India as a consequence of the partition. It was first shown on Indias national broadcaster Doordarshan as a miniseries and later as a oneoff fourhourlong feature film. At the 35th National Film Awards, it won three awards including the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration. In August 2013, it was shown on History TV18 as a series.

Early next morning Bakshiji A.K. Hangal and a few other members of the Congress party gather at the Congress office and march out for cleaning the drains in a Muslim mohalla for propaganda, singing patriotic songs. Initially theyre received at the mohalla warmly and are joined in by the residents in cleaning the drains. Later they are confronted by an old Muslim and asked to leave for their own good. Soon stones fly at the party members from neighboring houses and they flee the scene. Party members soon discover that someone has thrown a pig carcass at the steps of a mosque.Fearing unrest in the community Bakshiji and Hayat Baksh Manohar Singh, the spokesman of the Muslim League, visit the Deputy Commissioner Richard at his house and urge him to take preemptive measures to bring the situation under control. Richard declines the suggestions of Bakshiji and Hayat Baksh to deploy police or impose a curfew and instead tells the party members to urge their respective communities to maintain peace and order. ........

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