2012 · drama · action · romance
Ishaqzaade
Directed by Habib Faisal2h 12m2012
While fighting for the political supremacy of their respective families, a Hindu man and a Muslim woman share a forbidden romance.
Our read: Ishaqzaade (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · action · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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