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QISSA

QISSA, THE TALE OF A LONELY GHOST

By Anup SINGH

Drama - Completed 2012

A tale of refugees after the 1947 partition of India. A tale of a father and daughter. Except the father is a ghost and it is his daughter who killed him.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2013

Contemporary World Cinema NETPAC

Abu Dhabi FF 2013

Best Actress Tillotama Shome

Mumbai FF 2013

The Silver Gateway

Rotterdam IFFR 2014

Public Price

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- INDIA, GERMANY, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 110 mn
- Director(s)
- Anup SINGH
- Writer(s)
- Anup SINGH
- Cast
- Irrfan KHAN, Tisca CHOPRA, Tillotama SHOME
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-E20B-0000-G-0000-0000-Q
- Producer(s)
- Johannes REXIN (HEIMAT FILM), Nina GUPTA (NFDC), Bero BEYER (AUGUSTUS FILM), Thierry LENOUVEL (CINE-SUD PROMOTION)
- Synopsis
- 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
  ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity. QISSA is a modern fable, written from personal experience, inspired by historical events. Themes of displacement and identity resonate across generations and borders, so that QISSA allows a removed perspective on subject matters that
  are relevant today.
- Beginning of shooting
- Nov 01, 2011

QISSA

QISSA, THE TALE OF A LONELY GHOST

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