The majority of “Partition films” feature scenes of intense violence because the filmmakers couldn’t bear to look away from the horrifying tales of neighbours murdering one another or trains carrying corpses gliding across the newly established borders. Unflinching portrayals of this nature can also be useful (although they run the risk of being trivialised). The violence in Garm Hava, however, is more subtly expressed; it is about the unravelling of the several strands holding a family together and about being uprooted from the only life you have ever known.
The 1973 Hindi film Garm Hava (Garam Hawa) (English: Scorched Winds) was directed by M.S. Sathyu. The screenplay w
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