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Qissa
File:Irrfan Khan Qissa Film Poster.jpg
Film Poster
Directed byAnup Singh
Written byAnup Singh, Madhuja Mukherjee
Produced byJohannes Rexin, Thierry Lenouvel, Bero Beyer
StarringIrrfan Khan
Tillotama Shome
Tisca Chopra
CinematographySebastian Edschmid
Music byBeatrice Thiriet
Manish J Tipu
Release dates
  • 8 September 2013 (2013-09-08) (TIFF)
  • 10 July 2014 (2014-07-10) (Germany)
  • 26 September 2014 (2014-09-26) (India)
Running time
109 minutes
CountriesIndia
Germany
LanguagePunjabi

Qissa is a 2013 Indian-German drama film written and directed by Anup Singh. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival[1][2] where it won the Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film.[3] The film had a nation-wide release in India on 26 September 2014.[4]

Plot

Umber Singh, a Sikh after being displaced by the partition of 1947, has three daughters. He migrates to Punjab, India. Yet when his fourth daughter is born, he raises her as a boy, Kanwar Singh, who in times becomes a truck driver. However, when Kanwar Singh is married to a girl, Neeli, this gives birth to complications.[1][5]

Cast

References

  1. ^ a b "Qissa". TIFF. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition". Indiewire. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  3. ^ "TIFF 2013: 12 Years a Slave wins film fest’s top prize". Toronto Star, 15 September 2013.
  4. ^ http://dearcinema.com/news/qissa-release-india-september-26/2929
  5. ^ "'I call Qissa Anup's version of 12 Years a Slave'". Firstpost India. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.

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