Very True! Muneera (Shahana Goswami) and her husband Hanif (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), are a young Muslim couple who return home only to find it looted and burnt.

A disturbing saga about male chauvinism and mistreatment of women in India.

Various residents and career-criminals face challenges in crime-laden Mumbai. This is the second serial of Hum Television that shot in same place outside of country, as first being was Vasl. Composed by Piyush Kanojia and Rajat Dholakia, the lyrics of the songs are penned by Gulzar. The last time I felt this way watching anything on screen was when I saw Govind Nihalani's "Tamas" many years back. Meanwhile, her husband, Sanjay (Paresh Rawal), and his brother, Deven (Dilip Joshi), try to bribe police officers to prevent Deven's arrest for gang-rape. The film is the directorial debut of actress Nandita Das[1][2] and stars Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Inaamulhaq, Nassar (actor), Paresh Rawal, Sanjay Suri, Raghubir Yadav, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhash and Tisca Chopra. Pageviews for each item are divided by the aggregate number of pageviews generated by the items displayed. Firaaq won top honours at the Asian Festival of First Films 2008 in Singapore, where it won the awards for "Best Film", "Screenplay / Script", and "Foreign Correspondents Assn.

Purple Orchid Award for Best Film". It claims to be based on "a thousand true stories". View production, box office, & company info. This sectarian violence killed more than 900 Muslims and 300+ Hindus (reported), hundreds of thousands were made homeless on both sides. They decide to move to Delhi to escape the violence and Sameer comes into conflict with his wife's family over expressing his identity as a Muslim in India. When Shams realises this, he takes Paimaan with him to his house.[3]. It has largely been well received locally and internationally. The film is a biographical account of writer Saadat Hasan Manto's life and is set in 1940s India. Gautam Sen for "its perfect use of props and choice of colours to enhance the ambience of a post-riots" won National Film Award for Best Art Direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Firaaq_(TV_series)&oldid=977116716, All Wikipedia articles written in Pakistani English, Pages using infobox television with editor parameter, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 September 2020, at 01:31.

One is about a Hindu-Muslim couple (Sanjay Suri & Tisca Chopra) who have decided to leave the city after their store was looted and destroyed.


Then, she goes to Shams family and meets other. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a carnage that took place in Gujarat, India in 2002.

Each title is ranked according to its share of pageviews among the items displayed. Three impoverished room-mates kidnap middle-classed men and demand small ransoms to improve their respective lifestyles.

Her husband, Sanjay, had looted merchandise from shops, and his brother, Devan, had even sexually molested Muslim women. The serial includes fresh blood and some popular names of … [7][8], It was released in India on 20 March 2009 and received critical acclaim.
It's a graveyard scene where a loaded truck arrives giving more work to the grave diggers who already have enough bodies to bury together. A fictionalised account of true stories set one month after the horrific communal riots of Gujarat in 2002, Firaaq focuses on a handful of ordinary characters whose lives are changed irreparably by the riots.

Firaaq was a famous Pakistani family drama.

Later, one of those kids successfully leads the peasants to regain their food-grains earlier commandeered by the British.