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Actress Kirron Kher speaks about the release of her film 'Khamosh Pani' in India. She says that she considered the film to be a milestone in her career and that the film is very special to her as there a very few films that she could play a lead role in, at her age. Khamosh Pani (Punjabi: خاموش پانی (Shahmukhi), ਖਮੋਸ਼ ਪਾਨੀ (Gurmukhi); Silent Waters) is a 2003 Indo-Pakistani film about a widowed mother and her young son living in a Punjabi village as it undergoes radical changes during the late 1970s. Shot in a Pakistani village, the film was also released in India. It won seven awards, including Golden Leopard (Best Film), Best Actress, and Best Direction at the 56th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland. Kiron Kher, Aamir Ali Malik, Arshad Mehmood, Salman Shahid, Shilpa Shukla,