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"Refugee" is a young man (Abhishek Bachchan) from the Indian side of an
Indo-Pakistani border crossing in the desert. Among other activities,
he helps Muslim "refugees" across this border, hence his name. He's
also one of the village chief's two sons. The village chief is under
the strict eye of the Indian border guards. His village is a hot-spot
of illegal trafficking and migration between the two enemy countries.
After the 1971 war between India and Pakistan, the two countries became
sworn enemies and nuclear powers. East Pakistan became Bengladesh -
still a mostly Muslim country but now stressing its Bengali culture and
its "native" people. Many non-Bengali Muslim families rushed to migrate
to Pakistan. They are not Bengali, though Muslim, but unwanted both in
the new Bangladesh and in the India they had abandoned at the time of
"Partition." This new migration thus requires crossing the Indian
border twice before reaching Pakistan. One such family, having migrated
from Orissa (in India) to East Pakistan at the time of Partition,
arrives at "the Refugee's" village, after crossing the Bengladesh/India
border, and all of India east to west. They want to cross into
Pakistan, seen as the "holy land" where they can live in peace. The
family contracts the "Refugee" for the crossing to Pakistan. The
family's beautiful daughter (Kareena Kapoor), adds fuel to the
Indo-Pakistani fire. Her father uses her in a "search for a suitable
Muslim husband" alibi, as the family's pretext for residency in
Pakistan. However, this pretext provokes friction on both sides of the
border. The commanding Pakistani Border Officer and the Indian
"Refugee" compete for the beautiful daughter's affection. Thus,
Indo-Pakistani tensions are heightened beyond all precedents by this
additional conflict.
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