Updated Date: News in Brief See All left arrow right arrow. Neeli kills herself because she can’t deal with Kumber. A wife’s plight at not being able to bear a son and being dominated by men all around, a man’s desire for a male heir, a daughter’s pressure at not losing her position as a ‘son’ and simultaneously dealing with female body issues, a girl being forced to accept another girl as her ‘husband’; it’s all layered and yet explained in simplistic beauty. However, later in the film, when she plays a Kanwar trying to figure out whether masculinity or femininity comes naturally to her, Shome is superb. Shome is credible but not entirely convincing as Kanwar in his teenaged boy avatar. Perhaps this is what one would expect from an arty movie…which is something like an abstract painting. Irrfan Khan's movies brought out rooted characters and his clothes in those movies often mirrored that. exact thoughts of mine which you have pened down…. As I said, it’s chilling. The movie does haunt one long after its seen. When the films crucial turning point comes, it is in the vicinity of a house and the house is always in the backdrop. Before he was born, his parents had three sons and a daughter, with all three boys dying in their infancy. In the end, we see the house again. Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan) opts for an easier solution. Shome looks like an adolescent, which, too, is a kind of limbo – between childhood and adulthood. The reason why the ghost grows old is, it is really Kumber and not Kunwar possessed by a spirit. The film is absolutely gorgeous to look at, with Swiss cinematographers Pietro Zuercher and Carlotta Holy-Steinemann relishing the opportunity to film a country that looks so unlike their own. Kanwar gets married and we see the house again. Remember Irrfan Khan's 2015 movie 'Qissa'? My co-director Shilpi and I are delighted to present our new documentary project in collaboration with the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and the Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of External Affairs”. The going back to the well scene is symbolic of Kumber being in a perpetual state of guilt and thinking back to where this all started. But if it were a woman, the reaction should be stronger and in line with the baying for blood scenes. There’s this “boy” being taught how to wrestle. Bangla for Bengal: Can secularism trump regional linguistic pride. Arjun (Preet) is a rich young boy into substance abuse and his only ambition is getting his next fix. Neeli tryin to escape with the loot was one scene that i had to laugh at but then again u remember umber saying ” will buy you the whole shop after you give birth to a son” ..he had rape..impregnation in his twisted mind already…. There’s this “boy” facing the prospect of a wedding night. Qissa movie review: The well-chosen ensemble is wonderful. It’s easy to work with and not at all complicated to get started. i agree 100% with every word! ( Log Out / The house becomes a metaphor for peace. Heard about this, but didn’t know what it was about. Fandry review: A charming film about caste, identity and young love, Have to change Bollywood's item number image in West: Irrfan Khan, Irrfan bags best actor for Qissa in International Film Fest of Queensland, 9 Months Season 5 Episode 1 | Pregnancy & Gearing Up for Delivery. @jerinasriram…. PS: Coincidentally, only a couple of days after seeing the film, I stumbled upon this bit on Nathuram Godse’s wiki page: “Nathuram was given his name because of an unfortunate incident. Instead we get to see Kunwar’ s angst. As a result, neither the characters nor the audience really knows whether Neeli and Kanwar are in love or friends or forced together by circumstance. Explained: Myanmar's coup. Thank you. This is the very definition of a performance. Imagine knowing you’re A, but your father wants you to be B, and now you’re free to be A, but you’ve grown comfortable being B. The movie also won the best director award for Geneva-based Anup Singh. Most Partition-era tales go after the sadness of it all. There's no jubilation, not only because the villagers are about to become refugees in India but because Umber was desperately hoping for a son. Mumbai: After her magical performance in the widely acclaimed Qissa, Geneva-based director Anup Singh was yearning to cast the immensely talented Tillotama Shome … It's when Neeli (Rasika Dugal), a gypsy girl, enters the story and Umber decides to marry Kanwar to her that things start getting seriously complicated and Qissa loses its footing. Don't do this, she begs Umber but he doesn't listen. Some of Qissa's most powerful moments are between Shome and Dugal. Qissa is filled with moments that are so muted, they pass before you realise you should be weeping. Assignment for the Cinemas of India class, Flame University 2016.Script :Mallika DesaiSneha KumarManasi NeneEditing :Manasi Nene There’s a strong sense to be at home, to find their lost land. This is how I explained this to myself: The taking over was not possession but a full acceptance of delusion. Meher replies, “Live as my daughter.” You’d laugh if the mood weren’t so sombre. Shome may just be the most convincing man-played-by-a-woman. qissa, official trailer, internationally acclaimed, irrfan khan, tillotma shome, tisca chopra, rasika duggal, toronto international film festival, manish tipu, anup singh, india release, 2013, beatrice thiriet, punjabi, netpac award, tale, lonely ghost, gangs of wasseypur, bhoos ke dher, badmashiyyaan, kudiyan beimaan, Tillotama Shome (Film Actor), That isn't enough to make Qissa satisfying, but it does leave you haunted by the questions that riddle Kanwar, Neeli, Mehar and Umber's stories. It may have something to do with the line about “defeating destiny.” It may not. Qissa, just like Singh’s debut film, The Name Of A River begins inside a home. Copyright ©2015 Baradwaj Rangan. Rahini: it sounds ok as a conversation piece but not as part of movie review. As a child, Kanwar is taught to bind his chest. February 20, 2015 15:39:59 IST. ( Log Out / Neeli tells Kanwar that she/he’s free now and can do whatever she/he wants, but Kanwar probably had it easier when the choice didn’t exist. Firstpost - All Rights Reserved. Gramatical? Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! All this remains largely constant for the duration of the film, but the story flounders and starts pushing the boundaries of credibility. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. There’s the girl raised as a boy. They pretend to be something they're not, delighting in the illusion that allows them to let mundane reality fade temporarily. Hiding a distance away from the village are the women and children. My answer is symbolism – but for whom. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost is one of those films which unfolds on the screen with multiple meanings for different people. He raises her like a son when … That isn't enough to make Qissa satisfying, but it does leave you haunted by the questions that riddle Kanwar, Neeli, Mehar and Umber's stories. The director Anup Singh is after something looser, vaguer. Intriguing film indeed, but did you find the latter portions convincing, such as the portions where the wife (Rasika Duggal) discovers that her husband is a woman but decides to stick together; or the magic realism bits when the boundaries between father-son/daughter, body-soul are blurred? It does make you think and that never is a bad thing. ... “I wanted a story that explores the possibility of two people becoming one,” Irrfan explained.” It explores the lives of six young people, their hopes, aspirations and dreams. I loved the cast and the sets…teleported back to the post colonial era. When we first meet Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan), he's fighting a losing battle. A few scenes later, Neeli says they are like sisters. Qissa is far less dense and a simpler narrative. Your eyes are drawn to him even as you know you want to flee. TL; DR: symbolism instead of magic realism but a few unanswered questions. The prominence of a home hints at Ritwik Ghatak’s movies too, where home, the land, was an important factor. The reason for Mehar's dismay is explained years later when one night Umber's son Kanwar wakes Umber up, points to the crotch of his pyjamas and says, "Papa, khoon." While I really liked the movie, I found the change in tone a bit jarring. Umber buys something for her and then says he’ll buy her the whole shop when she has a son. Considering the circumstances, that the characters would be confused makes complete sense, but the problem with Qissa is that the intent of the story seems confused. @Saraah: I’m not sure if this entirely solves your problem, but you can download the subtitles from this site (.srt file): http://moviesubtitles.me/qissa-the-tale-of-a-lonely-ghost-2013-english-subtitles-download, @Arsaib Thank u Arsaib…..watched the movie with subtitles…. That’s about as much explanation we get about Umber’s decision to treat Kanwar as his “son.” He wants to believe this so desperately, it’s so important to him, that even when this “boy” comes to him at night with blood-stained pyjamas, he just remarks that his son is growing up. The village is empty, but for corpses, bonfires and bloodied fighters like Umber. I have watched this movie online but non seems to have english subtitles…..its difficult to understand. At least under Umber, she/he knew what she/he had to do – be a man, above all. Synopsis: Qissa Panjab is a multi narrative contemporary film set in Punjab. Collateral Beauty [BlUrAy] | Watch Collateral Beauty Online 2016 Full Movie Free HD.720Px|Watch Collateral Beauty Online 2016 Full MovieS Free HD !! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The best – and best-known – example of the latter kind of Partition saga is probably Manto’s Toba Tek Singh, which was actually set in a lunatic asylum, and in the movies, we’ve had Kamal Haasan’s Hey Ram!, whose deluded protagonist decided that the only way to get some sanity back into his life was to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi. Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost is the story of how far-reaching the consequences can be of playacting. Change ), 16 Responses ““Qissa”… A chilling tale about what it’s like to be in a limbo” →. Sign up for a weekly curated briefing of the most important strategic affairs stories from across the world. Divya Cowasji, co-director of the film stated: “I am a documentary filmmaker and photographer based out of Mumbai, Delhi and Mhow. Watching him, you feel the kind of morbid fascination when you run into the scene of a really gruesome accident. Irrfan Khan is incredible. In her own way, Meher appears to be as mad as her husband. Mehar wants to look at the baby, but Umber doesn't let her. It is a modern retelling of the original story, set in Uttar Pradesh , showing the nexus between politicians and criminals. I will call the resultant personality Kumber for ease of reference. That dressing-up scene is chilling. It may be no accident that the mirror – at times crusted with metaphorical grime, like the photograph in K Balachander’s Arangetram – is a recurrent image in the movie. Either they see a man which doesn’t sit with the theory or they see a partly naked woman and are embarrassed, either way, they question the uncle involving them in something like this. Indian actors Irrfan Khan and Tillotama Shome were named the best actors at the recently concluded International Film Festival of Queensland (IFFQ) in Australia, for their performances in "Qissa". The flexibility to have completely different styles of pages is just superb. From explaining certain religious iconography, such as the Fravashi (the guardian spirit) to their indispensable relations with the British, Qissa-e-Parsi is also able to unfold a beautiful mystery — the genesis of peculiar surnames such as Bharucha, Readymoney, Engineer, Daruwalla and Sodabottleopenerwalla. Thanks for the write-up. It appears just fine. I guess I am used to intellectual Ranjan . Qissa has received a rapturous applause that has cemented Singh’s place in the film world, with many comparisons being made to the Oscar-winning, 12 Years a Slave. Your thoughts? 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Indian cinema needs to speak a universal language and change the world's perception about Bollywood being an "item number", says Irrfan. There’s a fire that wipes out someone just as Kanwar goes to find them. Until this point, Qissa holds your attention with both its technical sophistication and its storytelling. In The Name of a River they are going to a new home, after partition, through river.In Qissa, we see Umber Singh come to India after partition in search of a better home. Mirza Juuliet, a 2017 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Rajesh Ram Singh, starring Darshan Kumar and Piaa Bajpai in the lead roles. Qissa is far less dense and a simpler narrative. Garima: That was an excellent comment. Any idea whr i can get to see it online with english subtitles? Sometimes, however, dress-up isn't quite so innocent. In the movie, Irrfan plays a ... Anup Singh’s Qissa (2013) was an odd choice. Or the one where Kanwar tells Meher how much she/he longed to sit down and talk with her, something that the family’s daughters had taken for granted. In The Name of a River they are going to a new home, after partition, through river.In Qissa, we see Umber Singh come to India after partition in search of a better home. Explained: 90 years on, remembering Peshawar’s Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre The Khudai Khidmatgar was a non-violent movement against British occupation of the Indian subcontinent led by Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a Pashtun freedom fighter, in the North-West Frontier Province. As a young adolescent (played by Tillotama Shome), he starts driving a truck. in the end. Many things are only scratched at the surface. Few set out to chart the madness – not the generalised insanity of mobs, but the literal madness of the times encapsulated in (and espied through) the madness of an individual. Most children play dress-up at some point. Qissa, just like Singh’s debut film, The Name Of A River begins inside a home. She says film-making is expensive and in the process, you smooth over all the imperfections of life. The cinematography is gorgeous, the background score is rich and the acting is superb. But now, when Kanwar wears those girl clothes, she/he feels like scorpions are all over her/his body. Determined to not be outfoxed by biology, Umber has raised his daughter as a son. Kunwar’s dilemma, the mother’s angst, the sister’s jealousy (?) I got the impression that the movie was trying to be pretentiously arty. MORTAL KOMBAT (2021) Ending Explained Full Movie Breakdown, Review, Easter Eggs And Sequel News The people who write those melodramatic soaps on TV couldn’t come up with more bizarre twists. . He's too busy celebrating his son's birth. Unfortunately for both these actors, the script seems unsure about their relationship. If it indeed were the story of a lonely ghost as the title suggested, then there should have been an attempt to let us into Umber ‘s head. Film Review: ‘The Song of Scorpions’ The beauties of Rajasthan’s desert landscape can’t disguise script flaws in Anup Singh’s disappointing follow-up to “Qissa.” Perhaps it's meant to be magic realism but the shift in tone is jarring and most importantly, it distracts us from Kanwar's identity crisis and the relationship with Neeli. I guess what I had wanted to say was that many things didn’t work for me with this movie. how could she live with the one who wanted to rape her….Gosh! I identified with him. Just found out that it’s actually being screened in Chennai next week as part of a NFDC Cinemas of India Showcase, so thought I’d share the link in case anyone else is interested in it as well – https://www.facebook.com/Chennaifilmfest/posts/1066582360064614. It is the stability the characters are looking for. Like the scene where Kanwar, from a discreet distance, watches Meher bathing. Punjabi Qisse, a tradition of Punjabi language oral story-telling. The word “chilling” kept popping into my head. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Irrfan Khan looms over her, and in her scenes with him, she really looks like a little boy. Punjabi film Qissa, an NFDC co-production, directed by debutant film-maker Anup Singh, won the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival that concluded on September 15.. End of the article. It was lyrical, neatly tangled in its own internal logic and not particularly easy to access if you weren't a fan of Ghatak's work. His entire film seems to be an attempt to come to grips with limbo, that state of being where you’re neither in India nor in Pakistan, neither man nor woman, neither human nor ghost, neither gay nor straight, where a line on a map or a chromosome can suddenly change the way people perceive you, which, in turn, changes the way you see yourself. weakest sentence in this review, need to revisit: ( Log Out / Ghaywan’s film Geeli Pucchi catches you off-guard as you emerge, a little disoriented, from the first two films in this anthology, making it a little difficult to comment on it in isolation, with any amount of objectivity or distance, and it stands out particularly starkly in … ( Log Out / At least, not in the way we talk about it in these LGBTQ times. But the film seems to shy away from walking the Boys Don't Cry path. The movie went on well with me…impressive….until the possession thingy…..umber back from the dead….. no wonder they showed neeli taking off from the balcony…. Where Irrfan played a father who makes his daughter think she is the son. The film won the award for its sensitive portrayal of the issues of identity and displacement that affect people … A charming love story set against the backdrop of a poor village in arid Maharashtra, this is a film that builds up to its final shot – destined to be iconic – with little manipulation or foreboding. The story Anup Singh wants to say is so delicate, so textured, and so unusual – at some point, it simply slips into magical realism, as if it were the most natural thing (and the cinematography is equally magical) – that the wrong cast would have killed it, or worse, made us hoot with laughter. Abruptly, the film abandons the realism that had grounded it and turns into a surreal story that involves elements like a ghost and a seemingly lunatic woman roaming around burnt-down haveli. Years later, when Umber has established himself in the lumber business in the Indian side of Punjab, Mehar becomes pregnant again. Di: What is wrong with that sentence? And here I felt exactly like the art challenged viewer – puzzled and rather unsatisfied, but most importantly a bit dumb for not getting ‘it’. Except for the fact that he is, physically speaking, a girl. The film has a multi-layered narrative. Imagine knowing you’re A, but your father wants you to be B, and now you’re free to be A, but you’ve grown comfortable being B. I probably need a rewatch, but I felt the film uses the magic realism device as a cop-out, wished several things were fleshed out better. Goes on to my list of films-to-watch; now, if only I can source it somewhere. Qissa Khawani Bazaar, a bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although the film was headlined by Irrfan, ... “I will always try out one thing that I have brought myself, it makes me own the space,” she explained. Anup Singh’s Qissa is a powerful, haunting, well-crafted film about the flu It feels a little weird calling Qissa arthouse cinema because the film is against any sort of reductionist classification. Duh! He just decides to think that his last-born girl (Kanwar, played as an adult by Tillotama Shome) is a boy. And yet, with this cast, nothing sticks out. The actress' turning point was her role of a mother in 'Taare Zameen Par', and she went on to prove her talent in projects like 'Firaaq', 'Qissa: The Tale Of A Lonely Ghost' and '24'. I came back feeling a bit cheated. Despite losing its way in parts, it's a thought-provoking film that looks beautiful and has some superb acting performances by Dugal, Shome, Khan and Chopra. Despite losing its way in parts, it's a thought-provoking film that looks beautiful and has some superb acting performances by Dugal, Shome, Khan and Chopra. A link to this URL, instead, would be appreciated. And when she dresses up in girl clothes, Shome looks like a cross-dresser – it’s hard to remember her as the shy, delicate, utterly feminine Alice from Monsoon Wedding. This time, Umber is in the room with her as she delivers their child and he is triumphant. Rest, he tells her and a shadow of a terrible despair is cast upon Mehar's face. He studies wrestling. Or the one where Neeli, on her wedding night, and after realising that she’s been married off to a woman, asks Meher what she should do now. Ending the evening at LIFF, Anup once again thanked the audience, and remembering his roots, thanked his parents and sisters for everything they had done for him since he was a child. Yes…. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Qissa movie review Star Cast: Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome, Rasika Dugal The title was misleading. A sturdy private detective goes looking for Marion — and ends up slashed and careening down the stairs. But sometimes there are no whys. A still from the film “Qissa-e-Parsi” is an intimate portrait of the Parsi community and its anxieties When Divya Cowasji arrived in Mumbai in 2008, it felt like a happy homecoming. She’s small of build, so she doesn’t have to face the kind of eye-rolling we did in, say, Mera Naam Joker, when Padmini pretended to be a man. Practically speaking, Kanwar is a son of the soil. and fear of their father, Neeli’s anger/disappointment (after all she is young and could be ruled by her hormones), even the lesbian angle is hardly dealt with (Neeli’s saying that she couldn’t believe she fell in love with a girl) and the switch of the bodies or is that identities(?) Argh. Later, when Kanwar has been married off to Neeli (Rasika Duggal, who looks like a young Urmila Matondkar), the in-laws take the new bride to the local jewellery store. I feel the cast have done justice to thr roles and the directr has won hearts. 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