Qissa
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Set in post-colonial India, QISSA tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh, who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; where individual ambition and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.
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Credits
Original Title
Qissa
Title
Qissa
Directed by
Anup Singh
Country
India
Year
2013
Screenplay
Anup Singh, Madhuja Mukherjee
Film Editing
Bernd Euscher
Soundtrack
Beatrice Thiriet, Manish J Tipu
Cinematography
Sebastian Edschmid
Sound
Peter Flamman
Costumes
Divya Gambhir, Nidhi Gambhir
Production Design
Tim Pannen
Production
Johannes Rexin, Bettina Brokemper
Runtime
109 min.
Language
Panjabi/d/f
Cast
Irrfan Khan, Tillotama Shome, Tisca Chopra