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Qissa (2013)
Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost
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Add to a movie listQissa is a 2013 Indian-German drama film in Punjabi written and directed by Anup Singh. The film was released in Indian theaters on 20 February 2015 nationwide and simultaneously on DVD and VOD as well. The film was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival where it won the Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film.
Synopsis
During the Partition of India in 1947, a Sikh Punjabi named Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan) evacuates his house with his wife Mehar (Tisca Chopra) and two daughters. He is disgruntled at the fact that he does not have a son to carry on his legacy as a strong Sikh hunter. He tells his wife that he is confident the next child will be a boy, but Mehar is unsure, and fearful that if she has another girl, Umber will leave her. During the birth of their 3rd child, Umber takes the child from the womb and declares with happiness that it is a boy. When Mehar tries to check the gender, Umber tells he not to worry about it and go to sleep. She realizes the child is in fact a girl and tells Umber that they can kill her if he feels it is inauspicious to have a 3rd daughter. Umber ignores her and happily, in his own denial, declares the new child as a boy named Kanwar.Actors
Irrfan Khan
(Umber Singh)
Tillomata Shome
(Kanwar Singh)
Rasika Dugal
(Neeli)
Tisca Chopra
(Mehar)
Sonia Bindra
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