2013 · drama · partition · gender
Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost
Directed by Anup Singh1h 49m2013
Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.
Our read: Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (2013) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · partition · gender entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / partition, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
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