FIRAAQ( India/ 2008/ Hindi/Urdu/Gujarati/ English

Firaaq, the debut film of Nandita Das as director tells us about a black day of Gujarat after a communal riot. Firaaq, the Urdu word means both separation and quest. The film gives the same to us to take back. The story rounds around four families and a secular musician. A middle class house wife belongs to Hindu religion became sad since she couldn’t open the door to help a lady belongs to Muslim and was killed. Her husband is not bothered on these issues and wish to enjoy his life differently. One Muslim family returned their house to see the carnage and he wishes to revenge, got company of three more . They tried to get pistols and at last obtained one with a pistol and lost the same as a retarded friend casually fired it. Later they will be in trouble.

Meanwhile , his wife got support of her Hindu friend to get good job. The musician was upset on the changing attitude of men and look very unpleasant.

The beginning scene is shocking . Film takes a lean towards atrocities towards minority people . The style of story telling is good and as a debut , it is good.

Direction- Nandita Das, Producer- Perfect Picture Company, Screen Play- Suchi Kothari, Nandita Das, Cinematography- Ravi.K.Chandran, Editing- Sreekar Prasad, Sound- Manas Choudhary

Cast—Naseerudhen Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Paresh Raval, Deepti Naval, Sanjay Suri, Tisca Chopra, Shahana Goswami, Nowaz, Mohd. Samad