Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (2013)
The Tale of Lonely Ghost
109 min
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.
- Release date
- September 8, 2013
- Country of origin
- France, Germany, India
- Music
- Béatrice Thiriet, Manish J. Tipu
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Cast
- Irrfan Khan as Umber Singh
- Tillotama Shome as Kanwar
- Rasika Dugal as Neeli
- Tisca Chopra as Mehar
- Sonia Bindra as Kulbir
- Faezeh Jalali as Baali
- Danish Akhtar Saifi as Young Kanwar
- Dhami as Village Elder
- Jitendra Kaur as Midwife
- Sukhwinder Virk as Midwife
Crew
- Anup Singh · Director
- Anup Singh · Writer
- Bettina Brokemper · Producer
- Johannes Rexin · Producer
- Béatrice Thiriet · Composer
- Manish J. Tipu · Composer
- Sebastian Edschmid · Cinematographer
- Bernd Euscher · Editor
- Ashish R. Shukla · Casting director
- Tim Pannen · Production designer
- Sanjay Rajput · Production designer