“Firaaq” a work of fiction based on a thousand TRUE stories.
Nandita Das has proved herself a very sensitive and intelligent director she has made this debut film with utmost care. I appreciate her. She should be more praise worthy, progressive and courageous if she could make film before this one, titled like “The Godhra Incident”, “Brutality of Aurangzeb”, “Jajiya Tax was Reasonable” and “Brutality of Taliban in Afghanistan”. There are 10000 sorrowful true stories are waiting of Kashmiri Pundits to be made film over them, please Nanditaji and Percept Picture Company make a film on this subject you both are very progressive and courageous.
FIRAAQ relates to lives of common people after the riots in Gujarat, which took place after Godhra incident. Film narrates six different stories not connected with each other. Nor they have similarity, nor do they assemble towards conclusion. These parallel narrative threads revolve in the region of Muslim Hindu Girlfriends, or a Muslim Hindu married couple. There is a transitory mention, that more trouble may be brewing, and we hold our armrests in expectancy of an explosive face-off that unites the contrasting people and pieces of information thus far, particularly with the subplot regarding the acquirement of a revolver by a cluster of vengeful Muslims.
Notwithstanding selecting such a profound subject in her directorial unveiling film, film actress Nandita Das has been successful in treating it with utmost compassion and technical elegance. With gifted technical support from optimum technicians like Ghajini fame cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran and editor Sreekar Prasad Guru, Yuva fame, actress become director Nandita Das has well arranged cast of endowed actors who took the film to an astonishingly up level.
Star Cast :
Naseeruddin Shah as Khan Sahib
Paresh Rawal as Sanjay
Deepti Naval as Aarti
Raghuveer Yadav as caretaker
Sanjay Suri as Sameer Sheikh
Shahana Goswami as Munira
Nowaz as Hanif
Tisca Chopra as Anuradha Desai
Director – Nandita Das
Music director – Rajat Dholakia, Piyush Kanojia
Screenplay – Shuchi Kothari, Nandita Das
Cinematographer – Ravi K. Chandran
Editor – Sreekar Prasad
Sound – Manas Choudhary
Production Designer – Gautam Sen
Producers – Harindra M. Singh, Shailendra M. Singh
Production Company – Percept Pictures Company
Language – Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, English
Runtime – 101 minutes
An 18 years old boy named Jamal Malik the street kid or say slumdog from Dharavi the slums of Mumbai is just one question away from winning 20 million rupees on Indian TV show “Who wants to be a millionaire” being watched by whole big nation. The show breaks for lack of time and on suspicion of cheating, police arrests him that how could a slum boy know so much and tortures him. Now the whole story revolves in flash back. Each chapter of boy’s life pinpoints to his answers to each question at TV show. The final day comes and the boy becomes millionaire before 60 million viewers.