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Firaaq

Name: Firaaq
Genre: Drama
Released: 2009-03-20
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 6.158

★ 6,2 /10 (19 Votes)

2009 HI 101 min

Overview

Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a campaign that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journey of ordinary people- some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who choose to watch silently.

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Release date

20/03/2009

Votes

Popularity

1.2

Genres

Drama

Status

Released

Original title

फ़िराक

Language

Runtime

101 min

Naseeruddin Shah

Khan Sahab

Paresh Rawal

Sanjay

Inaamulhaq

Munna

Nassar

Grave digger

Shahana Goswami

Muneera

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Hanif

Honey Chhaya

Bapuji

Deepti Naval

Arati

Dilip Joshi

Deven

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Kavan Antani

Arati's son

Raghubir Yadav

Karim

Sanjay Suri

Sameer Shaikh

Tisca Chopra

Anuradha Desai

Suchita Trivedi

Ketki

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Pranav Subramaniya

Ketki's son 1

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Gaurav Dasari

Ketki's son 2

Rahul Singh

Rajat

Divya Jagdale

Burnt woman

Sumeet Raghvan

Dr. Subhash

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Kamlesh D. Bhadra

Vegetable vendor

Mohammad Samad

Mohsin

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Ruhi

Sakina

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Prakash Dharma

Shop-keeper

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C. Rakesh

Auto driver

Amruta Subhash

Jyoti

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Kukul Tarmaster

Donation collector 1

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Qayam Hashmi

Donation collector 2

Vicky Ahuja

Lala

Madhurjeet Sarghi

Zehra

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Sridhar Kumar

Cop 1

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Dushant

Cop 2

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Ajay Upadhyay

Berry vendor

Original Soundtrack

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Firaaq HE GHOULS OF GENOCIDE IN AN EXTEMPORE EMOTION Directed by: Nandita Das Written by: Nandita Das & Suchi Kothari Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Shahana Goswami, Paresh Rawal, Raghuvir Yadav, Tisca Chopra Review by: Usman Khawaja **++Review:++** The opening montage reveals the theme in grandiose horror, where dilapidated corporation lorries are dumping mounds of butchered corpses in a Muslim cemetery in the spring of 2002 in Gujarat, as the two fatigued grave diggers bury them in mass graves, one spots a female corpse with a Hindu icon and starts to hit…

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