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Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (2013)
Directed by Anup Singh
“The Tale of Lonely Ghost”
Drama · 1h 49m
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; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.
Cast
Irrfan Khan
Tillotama Shome
Rasika Dugal
Tisca Chopra
Crew
- Director
- Anup Singh
- Screenplay
- Anup Singh
- Writer
- Madhuja Mukherjee
- Director of Photography
- Sebastian Edschmid
- Original Music Composer
- Béatrice Thiriet, Manish J. Tipu
- Editor
- Bernd Euscher
- Producer
- Johannes Rexin, Bettina Brokemper
Details
- Release date
- 2013-09-08
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- PA
- Spoken languages
- Punjabi
- Countries
- Germany, France, India, Netherlands
- Production
- National Film Development Corporation of India