scene from Meri Preeto - short film
In this scene from Meri Preeto, she is waiting for her monthly letter and money gram from her husband who is a soldier fighting at the border. She can't read and relies on her son to read the letters to her. However she doesn't know that there will be no more letters because a telegram came the day before informing the husband died. Desperate to hide the truth from his mother the young boy rights a letter from his dad and breaks his piggy bank to send her the monthly money gram. The postman realises from the child's writing but goes along with the boys plan...