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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bahktawar is caught by the police when he accidentally [[spoiler:comes across the crime scene]] and is promptly chewed out by the police lieutenant for selling children for a measly coin.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Saawan, the kids, and the bus they're on is stopped by terrorists hired by Dada, who shoot up the entire bus before fleeing. Only of the boys and the girl survives and the terrorists/human traffickers run off scot free, but Bahktawar is caught and arrested. However, it then turns out that Saawan did survive and he ends up reuniting with his family in the hospital.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Saawan, the kids, and the bus they're on is stopped by terrorists hired by Dada, who shoot up the entire bus before fleeing. Only of the boys and the girl survives and the terrorists/human traffickers run off scot free, scotfree, but Bahktawar is caught and arrested. However, it then turns out that Saawan did survive and he ends up reuniting with his family in the hospital.]]
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The movie deliberately highlights the various societal struggles that the characters go through, including the mom being expected to be obedient to the patriarchy (in a couple of instances, she needs to buy a cotton candy machine so that the family can have income, but she needs Jishar's permission first, and in another, Jishar threatens to beat her if she's disobedient), Saawan being seen as inferior, a burden, and a liability by basically everyone except for his mom and the kids he meets later, anti-vaccination beliefs among the poorer classes, and so on.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** The movie deliberately highlights the various societal struggles that the characters go through, including the mom being expected to be obedient to the patriarchy (in a couple of instances, she needs to buy a cotton candy machine so that the family can have income, but she needs Jishar's permission first, and in another, Jishar threatens to beat her if she's disobedient), Saawan being seen as inferior, a burden, and a liability by basically everyone except for his mom and the kids he meets later, anti-vaccination beliefs among the poorer classes, and soon.on.
** Jishar hitting [[DomesticAbuse his wife]] and [[AbusiveParent son while also verbally abusing his son]] is considered acceptable in their society, but it's still shown that he loves his family while also making it clear that what he does to them is wrong.
** The movie deliberately highlights the various societal struggles that the characters go through, including the mom being expected to be obedient to the patriarchy (in a couple of instances, she needs to buy a cotton candy machine so that the family can have income, but she needs Jishar's permission first, and in another, Jishar threatens to beat her if she's disobedient), Saawan being seen as inferior, a burden, and a liability by basically everyone except for his mom and the kids he meets later, anti-vaccination beliefs among the poorer classes, and so
** Jishar hitting [[DomesticAbuse his wife]] and [[AbusiveParent son while also verbally abusing his son]] is considered acceptable in their society, but it's still shown that he loves his family while also making it clear that what he does to them is wrong.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The movie deliberately highlights the various societal struggles that the characters go through, including the mom being expected to be obedient to the patriarchy (in a couple of instances, she needs to buy a cotton candy machine so that the family can have income, but she needs Jishar's permission first, and in another, Jishar threatens to beat her if she's disobedient), Saawan being seen as inferior, a burden, and a liability by basically everyone except for his mom and the kids he meets later, anti-vaccination beliefs among the poorer classes, and so on.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Dada hires terrorists to kill the kids and the other people on the bus to keep talk about their human trafficking business under wraps. Too bad Bahktawar gets caught by the police.]]
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Dada hires terrorists to kill the kids and the other people on the bus to keep talk about their human trafficking business under wraps. Too bad for him since Bahktawar gets caught by the police.police anyways.]]
* HellYesMoment: Saawan's mom has one when Jishar finally leaves to get Saawan back.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bahktawar is caught by the police when he accidentally [[spoiler:comes across the crime scene]] and is promptly chewed out by the top dog there for selling children for a measly coin.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bahktawar is caught by the police when he accidentally [[spoiler:comes across the crime scene]] and is promptly chewed out by the top dog there police lieutenant for selling children for a measly coin.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Saawan's mom gives one to her village chief for refusing to help his people while he sits comfortably in wealth.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: SadisticChoice: Leaving behind your crippled son in the middle of nowhere and hope that you can find a way to go back for him later and that he can fend for himself, or stay with him while hoping that your wife and baby daughter will do well without you and maybe even send help to you and your son, which is unlikely in such a sexist society. Alternatively, trying to carry him onto the truck would have gotten them killed since the drivers make it clear that they won't hesitate to do that if they tried.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Saawan's mom gives one to her village chief for refusing to help his people while he sits comfortably inwealth.wealth.
** The police lieutenant tears Bahktawar a new one for trafficking children.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** Saawan's mom gives one to her village chief for refusing to help his people while he sits comfortably in
** The police lieutenant tears Bahktawar a new one for trafficking children.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We don't get to see if the boy who wants his mommy or Mirzaad survived the shootout. Cripple is also carried away in an ambulance, but we don't see it again.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We don't get to see if the boy who wants his mommy or Mirzaad survived the shootout. Cripple is also carried away put in an ambulance, ambulance and doesn't seem to be injured, but we don't see it again.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Saawan's infected leg gets amputated at the end.]]
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* HeelRealization: Saawan's parents remembering that them not vaccinating Saawan was why he got polio and was subsequently crippled leads to them eventually getting Munni vaccinated.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Saawan, the kids, and the bus they're on is stopped by terrorists hired by Dada, who shoot up the entire bus before fleeing. Only of the boys and the girl survives and the terrorists/human traffickers run off scot free, but Bahktawar is caught and arrested. However, it then turns out that Saawan did survive and he ends up reuniting with his family in the hospital.]]
* CharacterWitness: Although downplayed as it could have happened regardless of Saawan's intervention, the "demon" man ends up becoming an AccidentalHero for Saawan when he attracts one of the human traffickers and kills him despite being killed by Bahktawar in the process. This could be seen as good karma for Saawan, since he had been feeding and accompanying the "demon" before that.
* ForWantOfANail: The "demon" killing one of the traffickers makes it easier for Saawan to free the kids later since he only had one shot to knock out Bahktawar without getting caught.
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* CharacterTitle: For the main character.
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** Subverted. Jishar's "friend" notes that Bahktawar has the same car as him, but it's Arif's car (which is the same model, but different color) that gives the kids suspicion since they don't come across Jishar's "friend".
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* TheGhost: Dada, the leader of the human traffickers.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Dada hires terrorists to kill the kids and the other people on the bus to keep talk about their human trafficking business under wraps. Too bad Bahktawar gets caught by the police.]]
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* PetTheDog: The first kids we see in Haithamabad after the flashbacks are the ones being trafficked. The traffickers almost see Saawan, they attempt to bribe the kids with food into confirming what they saw (since Saawan managed to hide himself before he could be seen), but they state that they didn't see anyone.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: Jishar gets down on his knees while begging his village chief to help him find Saawan. He's violently rejected.
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:In the ending, when Saawan's family looks for his hospital room, they find a dead body missing his leg and start crying... only to take off the blanket covering him to find that he isn't Saawan. They keep looking and find that he's alive.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:In the ending, when Saawan's family looks for his hospital room, they find a dead body missing his leg and start crying... only to take off the blanket covering him to find that he isn't Saawan. They keep looking and find that he's alive.]]
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Saawan urges his father to leave him behind to go with his mom and Munni. Jishar is initially reluctant, but leaves him behind. Though if Saawan's flashbacks show anything, he seems to suspect that his father did it partly because he's ThrUnfavorite, though he holds out hope that he'll come back for him.
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* IWillFindYou: Jishar leaves Saawan behind when the people escorting them refuse to take him, telling his wife that he'll go back for him when he has the chance.
* IWillWaitForYou: For a while, Saawan waits for his dad to come back for him, but eventually decides to leave when it turns out there are human traffickers in the area. He at least leaves behind a flag to mark where he was before leaving. [[DramaticIrony This is also around the time Jishar and Arif return to Haithamabad]].
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Saawan urges his father to leave him behind to go with his mom and Munni. Jishar is initially reluctant, but leaves him behind. Though if Saawan's flashbacks show anything, he seems to suspect that his father did it partly because he'sThrUnfavorite, TheUnfavorite, though he holds out hope that he'll come back for him.
* IWillWaitForYou: For a while, Saawan waits for his dad to come back for him, but eventually decides to leave when it turns out there are human traffickers in the area. He at least leaves behind a flag to mark where he was before leaving. [[DramaticIrony This is also around the time Jishar and Arif return to Haithamabad]].
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Saawan urges his father to leave him behind to go with his mom and Munni. Jishar is initially reluctant, but leaves him behind. Though if Saawan's flashbacks show anything, he seems to suspect that his father did it partly because he's
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* ParentsAsPeople: Saawan's parents. Jishar insults him and beats him and wife (which is partly because of religious/cultural values, but that's still not an excuse), but ultimately still loves him. Saawan's mom, on the other hand, loves him dearly, although she does have one moment where she smacks Saawan for coughing while they try to convince their smugglers to take him with them.
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* ParentsAsPeople: Saawan's parents. Jishar insults him and beats him and wife (which is partly because of religious/cultural values, but that's still not an excuse), but ultimately still loves him. Saawan's mom, on the other hand, loves him dearly, although she does have one moment where she smacks Saawan for coughing while they try to convince their smugglers to take him with them. The both of them are in great misery when Jishar leaves him behind.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Saawan's mom gives one to her village chief for refusing to help his people while he sits comfortably in wealth.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We don't get to see if the boy who wants his mommy or Mirzaad survived the shootout. Cripple is also carried away in an ambulance, but we don't see it again.]]
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''Saawan'' is a Pakistani movie on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
!!Tropes in this film include:
* ABoyAndHisX: Saawan eventually comes across a dog that is missing its front right leg and befriends it, naming it "Cripple". The dog meets some close calls courtesy of the human traffickers, but ends up okay.
* AbusiveParents: Jishar makes it clear he despises Saawan for being crippled, but ultimately loves him, is reluctant to leave him behind, and goes back for him. He's also a jerk to his wife and domestically abuses her.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** The "demon" man unknowingly saves Saawan from being found by the human traffickers by having another screaming episode, which attracts one of them. He attacks and kills the trafficker that finds him, which forces the other trafficker to flee. Sadly, the other trafficker kills the "demon" in the process.
** Saawan knocks out Bahktawar and rescues the kids.
* CharacterDevelopment: Mirzaad eventually accepts Saawan as a leader and makes amends to him.
* ChekhovsGun:
** While searching for Saawan, Jishar remembers that his wife told Saawan that there's a road behind the mountains.
* DramaticIrony:
** Saawan contracts polio, which could have been prevented had Haithamabad listened to the medical students that offered them free vaccination against polio.
** When one of the human traffickers doesn't believe his partner about seeing Saawan, he jokes that the earth must have swallowed him up... while Saawan is hiding in a tiny cave near them.
* GroinAttack: The remaining human trafficker gets slingshoted in the nuts by Saawan and ends up unconscious for a while.
* HopeSpot: Saawan hears a vehicle nearby and assumes it's his father, only to find out that it is human traffickers.
* IWantMyMommy: One of the kids keeps saying this. [[spoiler:And he cries for his mom as he's put into the ambulance.]]
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Saawan urges his father to leave him behind to go with his mom and Munni. Jishar is initially reluctant, but leaves him behind. Though if Saawan's flashbacks show anything, he seems to suspect that his father did it partly because he's ThrUnfavorite, though he holds out hope that he'll come back for him.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: One of the girls that was part of the group that Saawan rescued comments that both Saawan and Cripple are crippled, amazed that they are able to walk and climb.
* KickTheDog:
** One of the human traffickers leaves his partner behind after he is killed by the "demon".
** Jishar's "friend" ditches him in the wilderness when they learn that there are human traffickers in Haithamabad and that something killed one.
* KidsAreCruel: Saawan is bullied by his classmates.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bahktawar is caught by the police when he accidentally [[spoiler:comes across the crime scene]] and is promptly chewed out by the top dog there for selling children for a measly coin.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The surviving human trafficker gets stuck in the middle of nowhere with nothing when Saawan and the kids take his stuff and keys.
* MissedHimByThatMuch:
** Jishar is one step behind Saawan when he finally returns to Haithamabad.
** Arif and his guys are one step behind Jishar.
** Bahktawar is also this towards Saawan and the kids...
** Saawan and the kids hide from Arif and his men since they don't know who they are. Not helped that their armed appearance, mentioning that "We couldn't find them.", and their similar Jeep to the human traffickers makes them sound like human traffickers.
* {{Mooning}}: One of the kids does this to a car that passes them.
* ParentsAsPeople: Saawan's parents. Jishar insults him and beats him and wife (which is partly because of religious/cultural values, but that's still not an excuse), but ultimately still loves him. Saawan's mom, on the other hand, loves him dearly, although she does have one moment where she smacks Saawan for coughing while they try to convince their smugglers to take him with them.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The people of Haithamabad.
** They violently reject the free polio vaccination from the medical students, believing it to be a trick from the rich people to make them infertile.
** They have no problem making fun of and bullying Saawan for his crippled state and fearing that he'll also make them sick.
* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler:Saawan, the kids, and the bus they're on is stopped by terrorists hired by Dada, who shoot up the entire bus before fleeing. Only of the boys and the girl survives, but Bahktawar is caught and arrested. However, it then turns out that Saawan did survive and he ends up reuniting with his family in the hospital.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** Arif, a news reporter, decides to help Jishar by sending out helicopters to give aid at Haithamabad and giving Jishar a Jeep to drive there while also helping him on the search personally and giving it press coverage.
** Jishar is given a large sum of money from his friends to help him find Saawan.
** After going into a cave, the kids find a pond of water and a road with occasional cars. And after a few unwilling cars, a van/bus eventually stops for them.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Arif barfs behind the van when he sees [[spoiler:one of Saawan's feet cut off at the crime scene]].
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Bahktawar does one when he comes to after being knocked unconscious by Saawan (caused by a GroinAttack, no less).
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Saawan's mom frequently gives these to Jishar for his AbusiveParent and misogynistic attitude, especially when he leaves Saawan behind.
** The other kids give this to the older boy Mirzaad when he refuses to share food with Saawan because he thought that he pushed the girl for calling him crippled. They also call him out when he refuses to listen to Saawan.
!!Tropes in this film include:
* ABoyAndHisX: Saawan eventually comes across a dog that is missing its front right leg and befriends it, naming it "Cripple". The dog meets some close calls courtesy of the human traffickers, but ends up okay.
* AbusiveParents: Jishar makes it clear he despises Saawan for being crippled, but ultimately loves him, is reluctant to leave him behind, and goes back for him. He's also a jerk to his wife and domestically abuses her.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** The "demon" man unknowingly saves Saawan from being found by the human traffickers by having another screaming episode, which attracts one of them. He attacks and kills the trafficker that finds him, which forces the other trafficker to flee. Sadly, the other trafficker kills the "demon" in the process.
** Saawan knocks out Bahktawar and rescues the kids.
* CharacterDevelopment: Mirzaad eventually accepts Saawan as a leader and makes amends to him.
* ChekhovsGun:
** While searching for Saawan, Jishar remembers that his wife told Saawan that there's a road behind the mountains.
* DramaticIrony:
** Saawan contracts polio, which could have been prevented had Haithamabad listened to the medical students that offered them free vaccination against polio.
** When one of the human traffickers doesn't believe his partner about seeing Saawan, he jokes that the earth must have swallowed him up... while Saawan is hiding in a tiny cave near them.
* GroinAttack: The remaining human trafficker gets slingshoted in the nuts by Saawan and ends up unconscious for a while.
* HopeSpot: Saawan hears a vehicle nearby and assumes it's his father, only to find out that it is human traffickers.
* IWantMyMommy: One of the kids keeps saying this. [[spoiler:And he cries for his mom as he's put into the ambulance.]]
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Saawan urges his father to leave him behind to go with his mom and Munni. Jishar is initially reluctant, but leaves him behind. Though if Saawan's flashbacks show anything, he seems to suspect that his father did it partly because he's ThrUnfavorite, though he holds out hope that he'll come back for him.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: One of the girls that was part of the group that Saawan rescued comments that both Saawan and Cripple are crippled, amazed that they are able to walk and climb.
* KickTheDog:
** One of the human traffickers leaves his partner behind after he is killed by the "demon".
** Jishar's "friend" ditches him in the wilderness when they learn that there are human traffickers in Haithamabad and that something killed one.
* KidsAreCruel: Saawan is bullied by his classmates.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bahktawar is caught by the police when he accidentally [[spoiler:comes across the crime scene]] and is promptly chewed out by the top dog there for selling children for a measly coin.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The surviving human trafficker gets stuck in the middle of nowhere with nothing when Saawan and the kids take his stuff and keys.
* MissedHimByThatMuch:
** Jishar is one step behind Saawan when he finally returns to Haithamabad.
** Arif and his guys are one step behind Jishar.
** Bahktawar is also this towards Saawan and the kids...
** Saawan and the kids hide from Arif and his men since they don't know who they are. Not helped that their armed appearance, mentioning that "We couldn't find them.", and their similar Jeep to the human traffickers makes them sound like human traffickers.
* {{Mooning}}: One of the kids does this to a car that passes them.
* ParentsAsPeople: Saawan's parents. Jishar insults him and beats him and wife (which is partly because of religious/cultural values, but that's still not an excuse), but ultimately still loves him. Saawan's mom, on the other hand, loves him dearly, although she does have one moment where she smacks Saawan for coughing while they try to convince their smugglers to take him with them.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The people of Haithamabad.
** They violently reject the free polio vaccination from the medical students, believing it to be a trick from the rich people to make them infertile.
** They have no problem making fun of and bullying Saawan for his crippled state and fearing that he'll also make them sick.
* SuddenDownerEnding: [[spoiler:Saawan, the kids, and the bus they're on is stopped by terrorists hired by Dada, who shoot up the entire bus before fleeing. Only of the boys and the girl survives, but Bahktawar is caught and arrested. However, it then turns out that Saawan did survive and he ends up reuniting with his family in the hospital.]]
* ThrowTheDogABone:
** Arif, a news reporter, decides to help Jishar by sending out helicopters to give aid at Haithamabad and giving Jishar a Jeep to drive there while also helping him on the search personally and giving it press coverage.
** Jishar is given a large sum of money from his friends to help him find Saawan.
** After going into a cave, the kids find a pond of water and a road with occasional cars. And after a few unwilling cars, a van/bus eventually stops for them.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Arif barfs behind the van when he sees [[spoiler:one of Saawan's feet cut off at the crime scene]].
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Bahktawar does one when he comes to after being knocked unconscious by Saawan (caused by a GroinAttack, no less).
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Saawan's mom frequently gives these to Jishar for his AbusiveParent and misogynistic attitude, especially when he leaves Saawan behind.
** The other kids give this to the older boy Mirzaad when he refuses to share food with Saawan because he thought that he pushed the girl for calling him crippled. They also call him out when he refuses to listen to Saawan.
