The Extended Canon
Firaaq
फ़िराक़ · 2008
One day, one month after the 2002 Gujarat violence, told through six sets of people trying to act normal.
- Director
- Nandita Das
- Year
- 2008
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Paresh Rawal, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Why it's in the canon
Nandita Das's directorial debut. The most tactful and most damning film about that year.
One day, one month after the 2002 Gujarat violence, told through six sets of people trying to act normal.
Firaaq sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Nandita Das.
- Released in 2008, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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