Kiron Kher has won the Best Actress Award at the 56th Locarno film festival for her stunning portrayal in Pakistani film Khamosh Pani.
The film is a Pakistani-French-German co-production directed by Sabiha Sumar, a Pakistani.
The film is about the families left behind during the India Partition riots of 1947.
It has Kiron playing a woman who has been abducted and uprooted, whose brother comes looking for her. And it’s about her relations with her son, who turns fundamentalist
The film, scripted by Paromita Vora (an Indian), won the top prize, the Golden Leopard, at the festival in Switzerland on Saturday.
Kiron Kher has won the Best Actress Award at the 56th Locarno film festival for her stunning portrayal in Pakistani film Khamosh Pani.