Director: Nandita Das
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Raghuvir Yadav, Deepti Naval, Shahana Goswami, Sanjay Suri, Tisca Chopra
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Raghuvir Yadav, Deepti Naval, Shahana Goswami, Sanjay Suri, Tisca Chopra
Release Date: 20 Mar, 2009
Firaaq is set in after 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots period in Gujarat. The movie explores the discord and pain the riots have left in the lives of common men and the tensions that Hindus & Muslims suffer in each other's presence. Hanif and Muneera return to the modest home they had fled during the riots, and find it ransacked. With their lives upset and shattered not simply by vandalism but also by betrayal from their neighbours, the couple seeks revenge. Another middle class Hindu couple Sanjay and Arati are met with new moral challenges in the changed scenario. Even composed and mature musician Khan Saheb soon starts getting affected from the tension, staying in a Hindu neighbourhood. And in parallel is the story of Anu and Sameer, an intermarried Hindu-Muslim couple, who now face the tensions they have long ignored and suppressed
