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ABSURD THEME OF WAQT (1965), A DELIBERATE PLOY?

In the 1965 film Waqt, the choice of an earthquake as the catalyst for family separation is often cited as "absurd" or "flimsy" because it serves as a sanitized metaphor for the Partition of India. Critics and film scholars highlighted the following reasons for this perceived absurdity in the past as well
Avoidance of Political Sensitivity: At the time of its 1965 release, India was in the midst of war with Pakistan. Filmmakers used the earthquake to evoke the mass displacement and trauma of 1947 without directly addressing the politically charged and communal violence of Partition.
Dubious reason of Long-Term Separation: Critics argue that while an earthquake causes immediate chaos, it rarely results in family members being scattered to completely different cities (Bombay, Delhi) and remaining lost to each other for decades in a way that Partition-era migration did.
Thematic Focus on Fate: The earthquake aligns with the movie’s title (Waqt meaning "Time") and its central theme that human plans are secondary to the unpredictable whims of destiny...a hilarious thought, isn't it?
What more could you hope for from WAQT storyteller AKHTAR MIRZA, who refrained from using the partition as an excuse for family division? If not, there would have been scenes of Muslims killing Hindus including Lala Kedarnath's Hindu family, which he avoided as a pious and intelligent Muslim. For all these years, URDUWOOD has led us to believe that.

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