Qissa (2015) Indian movie
Directed: Anup
Singh
Produced by Johannes
Rexin, Thierry Lenouvel, Bero Beyer
Cast
Irrfan Khan as
Umber Singh
Tillotama Shome as
Kanwar Singh
Rasika Dugal as
Neeli
Tisca Chopra
Faezeh Jalali
Sonia Bindra
Written by Anup
Singh, Madhuja Mukherjee
Release dates: 8
September 2013 (TIFF), 10 July 2014 (Germany), 20
February 2015 (India)
Country : India,
Germany, France,
Netherlands
Language : Punjabi
History
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.
