A gold medal, a stroke, and a Pakistani friend nobody knew existed.
Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the 1948 London Olympics. Six decades later, when Nandy Singh, a member of this iconic team suffers a stroke, his tenacious struggle to recover, inspires his daughter to retrace his journey. Using archival footage and interviews with teammates, she reveals lives shaped by the Gold, and by Partition that made them refugees. Revealed also is a friend in Pakistan never spoken of before. Her journey in search of him morphs into a quest for the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).
Direction
Bani Singh turns daughter into detective, grief into cartography.
Editing
Archival shards stitched into something alive and urgent.
Writing
Partition as lived verb, not history-book noun.
Director
Bani Singh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1948 was India's first Olympics as independent nation; beating England at their own sport carried symbolic weight no medal ceremony could capture.
The film's title 'Longing' translates 'watan'—not mere nostalgia but an active, aching relationship with land that no longer exists as remembered.
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