Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a campaign that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journey of ordinary people- some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who choose to watch silently.
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raw, haunting and bold. Firaaq directed by Nandita Das is a courageous portrayal of the emotional scars left by communal violence. Through multiple interwoven narratives, the film captures human fragility with a rawness reminiscent of Manto’s works. Nandita fearlessly tackles a brutal yet essential topic, while the stellar cast including Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Paresh Rawal, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui delivers restrained yet powerful performances grounding the film in harsh realism.
The fragmented storytelling acts as a mosaic of lives, each reflecting different shades of trauma and hope. Naseeruddin Shah aging musician yearning for harmony adds a poetic layer to the chaos, while Nawazuddin Siddiqui portrays simmering loss with quiet intensity. Deepti Naval guilt laden silence as a grieving wife is…
Nandita Das delivers a well written powerful drama, that sensitively captures the devastating effects on the lives of ordinary people, post the communal gujarat riots of 2002. The misogyny and the right wing fanaticism is rightly handled. The strength of the drama is the way it questions your conscience through its strong parallel narratives and conversations, without being preachy or passing any prejudiced judgements. The movie is technically solid, with fine performances from its entire ensemble cast. A thought provoking drama.
"muslim are being slaughtered,
doesn't that bothered you?
people are killing people,
that bother's me, karim miyan"
brutal, raw and such a powerful film. brilliantly casted, specially the little kid was amazing.
Having a deadly event as the backdrope of the story, we follow the most various people and how their lives unwind in a 24 hour time span. The result is impressive and unrelenting. Things aren't left to say and violence dominates the world of people who just wanted to live as simply as they could the way they wanted to.
So today I watched this movie on Amazon prime suggestions.
Nandita das! Bravo! 👏All the characters are perfectly written and the cast is perfect. The screenplay and the direction is up to the mark.
I really recommend this movie to everyone.
“Sirf saat suron mein itni kaabiliyat kahaan ki aisi nafrat ka saamna kar sakein?”
What does one do when the people who are supposed to protect you persecute you?
What does one do when living is constantly plagued by the fear of death?
How does a nation and a people that is so fractured ever recover?
Oh goodness, my heart and soul aches as I watch this painful and devastatingly relevant movie on rising communal hatred and religious intolerance (read: Islamophobia) in the country.
‘Tis unbelievably easy for me to say I’m hopeful that we’ll recover but how does one remain hopeful when the institutions continue to fail you and it only seems to be getting worse.
And to think…
18 years may have passed but the devastating human tragedy still strikes a chord. Would make a great double billing with the even more effective Parzania.
They dont make brave films like this , these days in india . Devastating from start to finish .
Whenever i think about the catastrophe that was caused by humans for their hatred towards a religion , it makes my heart weep . This has happened in my gujarat . The gujarat for which i have to be proud of , that my teachers have always teached me , but never ever cared to mention the inhuman acts that have been conducted by the people that reside in it .
Such acts makes me question my faith . Where was GOD at the time when people were burnt alive , cut , raped for having faith in him .
watching the hate that runs through my city like a canal, i could feel my heart ache and my hands as always were empty, nothing to give and nothing to lose. that's the privilege that people like me hold, and i hate myself for that.
This is a very tough movie about the riots in Gujarat in 2002 after the death of many hindu children and women in a train which was burnt.
I think that everyone who want to watch this movie has to see "In the name of God" from Anand Patwardhan before, if he's not from India. It will help to understand why it has happened and why the police wasn't efficient.
We can watch the aftermath in its effects on the lives of everyday people being scared of hindus who want to kill any muslim to make them pay back what happened whatever their age, their sex or their condition.
Just because they are muslims.
Follow many people living this situation,…
top notch writing!
what happened?
i just realised something.
what?
every single box in this house is packed with my fears.
so, what’s the point of moving?
In saat suron main aisi qabiliyat kahaan jo aisi nafrat ka saamna kr sake
Who would've thought that what happened in Gujarat in 2002 would be the situation of the entire country in 2021. Honestly now we are at a point of no return, the hate is so deeply embedded in the average Indian mind, it really makes me wonder whether we have really learned nothing from the past.
