Can someone explain the ending? Spoiler...
Kamla finds her husband's stuff in the streets. Independent of the reason why he's dead or gone, why is the stuff (handy etc.) still there? This would be stolen and used/sold by other people in no time, no? Makes no sense at all, does it?
I saw this film tonight at the Portland International Film Festival, and on my way out I heard a fair number of people talking about this. Many of them were confused about it. Some even thought Nawaz was her husband and she didn't recognize him, which I thought was a strange interpretation of the events.
For me, I thought it was pretty clear: Nawaz found the construction site and learned that Kamla's husband had died. He was given the personal effects of the man in a brown envelope, and he put it in his bag. He didn't tell her because either he was trying to prolong their journey together or he was trying to find 'the right time' to break it to her.
When Kamla calls her husband and hears the phone ring, she goes through Nawaz's bag and finds the envelope with the phone, wallet, watch, etc. She realizes what has happened and leaves without saying goodbye.
Nawaz returns to the construction site and 'replaces' her husband, and she goes back to the village.
That's my take on it, at least.
Falling feels like flying... until you hit the ground.-Tom McRae
That was exactly also my take on it, until I reflected on the film's name. It is the film's name that confuses me and tries to convey the message as if Nawaz himself is the husband (remember Nawaz asking the little girl, "Have you hever seen Harud?"): but that possibility is too bizarre a possibility and doesn't make sense in the context of many other things.
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