{"id":144,"date":"2003-12-17T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T13:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/17\/the-two-versions-of-hawayein\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T13:18:25","slug":"the-two-versions-of-hawayein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/17\/the-two-versions-of-hawayein\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Versions of &#8220;Hawayein&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a16'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P style=\"0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">&#8220;Hawayein&#8221; was recently released, and it looks like there are at least two versions going around in the US on DVD.&nbsp; The 3 hour version (by <A href=\"http:\/\/www.bollywoodflix.com\/mov_2089.asp\">Megstar<\/A>) has an hour on Sarabjit (Ammtoje Mann) becoming a farmer in Punjab, and later experiencing police harassment.&nbsp; There&#x2019;s even a scene where the police, after detaining Mann, take him out in their jeep and plan to construct a &#x201C;fake encounter.&#x201D;&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">None of this appears in a version released by an Edison company and currently available in some Indian rental stores.&nbsp; It skips the hour on crimes committed by the Punjab police.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"0in 0in 0pt\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Megastar version also features clips of survivors of the 1984 pogroms against Sikhs.<BR><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hawayein&#8221; was recently released, and it looks like there are at least two versions going around in the US on DVD.&nbsp; The 3 hour version (by Megstar) has an hour on Sarabjit (Ammtoje Mann) becoming a farmer in Punjab, and later experiencing police harassment.&nbsp; There&#x2019;s even a scene where the police, after detaining Mann, take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1472"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}