Qissa

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Qissa
Film Poster
Directed by	Anup Singh
Produced by	Johannes Rexin, Thierry Lenouvel, Bero Beyer
Written by	Anup Singh, Madhuja Mukherjee
Starring	Irrfan Khan Tillotama Shome Tisca Chopra
Music by	Beatrice Thiriet Manish J Tipu
Cinematography	Sebastian Edschmid
Edited by	Bernd Euscher
Release dates	8 September 2013 (TIFF) 10 July 2014 (Germany) 20 February 2015 (India)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	India Germany France Netherlands
Language	Punjabi

Qissa is a 2013 Indian-German drama film in Punjabi written and directed by Anup Singh. The film was released in Indian theaters on 20 February 2015 nationwide and simultaneously on DVD and VOD as well.^[1] The film was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival^[2][3] where it won the Netpac Award for World or International Asian Film.^[4]

Plot[edit]

Umber Singh, a Sikh after being displaced by the partition of 1947, has three daughters. He migrates to Punjab, India. Yet when his fourth daughter is born, he raises her as a boy, Kanwar Singh, who in times becomes a truck driver. However, when Kanwar Singh married to a girl, Neeli, this gives birth to complications.^[2][5]

Cast[edit]

• Irrfan Khan as Umber Singh
• Tillotama Shome as Kanwar Singh
• Rasika Dugal as Neeli
• Tisca Chopra
• Faezeh Jalali
• Sonia Bindra

Reception[edit]

The film received positive reviews from film critics as well as audience.^[6] 'The film is provocative poetry, and not preachy polemic, which makes it a true work of art'-NDTV Movies. ^[7] 'It's in tradition of compelling folktale that you can't shake off once you've heard it' - IBNLive.