
Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (2013)
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.
Genre: Bollywood, Drama, Fantasy, Punjabi
Director: Anup Singh
Actors: Danish Akhtar, Faezeh Jalali, Irrfan Khan, Rasika Dugal, Sonia Bindra, Tillotama Shome, Tisca Chopra
Country: France, Germany, India, Netherlands