Race Relations and Women and Children's Positions
Love & Hatred before & during the
Partition Period
Qs:
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Describe how
the different races are presented. (e.g. Race Relations in the film: clips
2, 9; Parsee, clips 5 )
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How is
partition presented? What are the symbols used? Ironies? (clips 4, 12)
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What are the
significances of the park scenes and the friends' meetings? What is the
symbolic meaning of the park? (clips 3; 7, 9, 16, 18, ending)
Characters across the Racial Divide
•Compare the
characters of Hassen and Dil Navaz.
•Discuss
Dil Navaz's changes in the film. Why do think the original novel is subtitled
The Ice Candy Man?
•What
do you think about the betrayal at the end of the film?