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The film version had only one visual and few audio cuts.
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Its television released happened on Star Plus in 1998, after its theatrical release. Eventually it was passed in December 1997 with a few cuts, mostly audio. Initially, the film was to have its premiere on STAR Plus channel on 15 August 1997, India's Independence day, but it ran into trouble with the Indian Censor Board, thus its theatrical release was also cancelled twice, and with director not agreeing to the cuts demanded by the board, the film went to a tribunal, which caused further delays. The shooting was finally completed by July 1997, when the film went into post-production work in Mumbai, ahead of its 15 August, television premiere on STAR Plus. Pamela used her background in the documentary film, making to shoot certain parts of the film live, in scenes like that of religious ceremony at a temple, the feel couldn't have been recreated though retakes were shot live. Though many villages of Punjab resembled the Punjab of fifty years prior, Muslim pockets were missing now, hence a couple of villages on the fringes of Punjab were used to give a combined look of Mano Majra, the village near the Indo-Pak border, where the novel was set.
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The film was produced by Channel Four Films and National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), and the production company was Kaleidoscope Entertainment The shooting began nearly fifty years after the actual partition of India in 1947. However, she has visually translated most of the lines from Khushwant Singh's narrative directly on to the screen. Thus the film begins with Hukum Chand, the District Magistrate, reminiscing about the partition period. For her adaptation, Rooks chose a slightly different narrative from the original novel. Previously as her first feature, Rooks had adapted her own novel Miss Beatty's Children, into a 1993 film by the same name, which won her the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director. Initially the publishers of the book, Ravi Dayal, were hesitant to give the rights of the work to a new filmmaker, as this was only Rooks' second feature, till Ravi Gupta, Managing Director of NFDC stepped in and a go-ahead was given. The novel stayed with her, however, because growing up she had stories of the Partition from her parents. Pamela Rooks first read the novel at 17, preparing for the title role of Nooran, which she was set to play in the prospective Ismail Merchant film, which never took off.
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According to him, several people in past have attempted to make the film, including Shashi Kapoor and Shabana Azmi, who even developed a screenplay, but owing to the sensitivity of the subject, they abandoned the project. The film was one of the most anticipated adaptations of its time, especially being writer Khushwant Singh's most acclaimed work.
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The Sikhs own most of the land, and the Muslims work as labourers. The villagers are a mix of Sikhs and Muslims, who live in harmony. Mano Majra, incidentally, was the original title of the book upon its release in 1956. The film develops around the love affair of small-time dacoit Juggut Singh (Nirmal Pandey), with a local Muslim girl, Nooran ( Smriti Mishra). The film is set in Mano Majra, which is a quiet fictional village on the border of India and Pakistan, close to where the railway line crosses the Sutlej River.