Haider

Overview:

A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.

Director:

Vishal Bhardwaj

Status:

Released

Language:

Hindi

Buget:

$7,000,000.00

Revenue:

$11,500,000.00

Key words:

Cast

Shahid Kapoor

~ as ~

Haider Meer

Tabu

~ as ~

Ghazala Meer

Kay Kay Menon

~ as ~

Khurram Meer

Shraddha Kapoor

~ as ~

Arshia Lone

Narendra Jha

~ as ~

Dr. Hilal Meer

Irrfan Khan

~ as ~

Roohdaar

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

~ as ~

Hussain Meer

Lalit Parimoo

~ as ~

Pervez Lone

Aamir Bashir

~ as ~

Liyaqat Lone

Sumit Kaul

~ as ~

Salman 1

Reviews (1)

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badelf
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
As a Shakespearean actor, I can tell you this film is the BEST adaptation of one of his plays I have ever seen. It is in the same class as Kurasawa's RAN. It is a brilliantly written screenplay, and both directed and performed at the very highest level. Bhardwaj has taken quite a bit of liberty with the sequence and story line, but not so much that it is unrecognizable from the Bard's work. Even the name of the mysterious revolutionary, Roohdaar means "spirit" in Hindi - or ghost. Much more importantly, Bhardwaj has used the play as a tool to relate and comment on a dark period in the history of the animosity between India and Pakistan. And like Kurasawa, he blatantly rails against revenge and war.