PVR Directors Rare & NFDC India to release Qissa in India on February, 20, 2015
After globe-trotting at various film festivals, independent filmmaker Anup Singh’s acclaimed Punjabi film “Qissa” is set for a theatrical release in the country February 2015
Starring : Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome
Director : Anup Singh
Screenwriter : Anup Singh, Madhuja Mukherjee
Music direction : Manish Tipu
Co-Production : Heimatfilm, NFDC (National Film Development Corporation ltd.), Augustus Film, Ciné Sud Promotion
Supported by: ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, FFA, MBB, DFFF, Eurimages, NFF Netherland Film Fond, Fonds Sud Cinéma
Release Date : 20 February 2015
Synopsis :
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; where individual ambition and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.
Director Anup Singh’s Punjabi film Qissa was awarded as the top Asian film at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. It was the first time that any Punjabi film had entered the world’s top film festival.
A jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) voted Qissa as its choice for the NETPAC Award for World Asian Film Premiere.
The jury comprising Jay Jeon (Korea), Intishal Al Timini (Abu Dhabi) and Freddie Wong (Hong Kong) said, “The NETPAC Award for the best Asian film at Festival 2013 goes to Qissa, directed by Anup Singh, for its sensitive portrayal of the issues of identity and displacement that affect people not only in India, but in all parts of the world and for brilliance of cinematic craft and the choice of metaphor that has been employed to tell a moving story that is bound to provoke thoughts, spark debate and give its viewers an intense experience.
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