Cast : Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Deepti Naval, Nowaz, Mohd. Samad, Sanjay Suri, Tisca Chopra, Shahana Goswami, Raghubir Yadav
Director : Nandita Das
Music Director : Rajat Dholakia, Piyush Kanojia
Producer : Shailendra Singh
Lyrics : Gulzar
Year : 2009

Synopsis/Plot :

Firaaq is  an urdu word that means both separation and quest.

The story is set over a 24-hr period, one month after a carnage that took place in Gujurat,India 2002. It traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people - some who were victicms ,some perpetrators and some who chose to watch silently . As an ensemble film,it follow multiole narratives that are at times interconnected adn at times discreet,yet all are united by their spatial and emotional context.

A middle-clas houseife closes the door on a woman desperately seeking refuge, and then struggles to overcome her guilt. The loyalty of two best friends is challenged in times rife with fear and suspicion. A group of viitimized young men seek revenge as a way out of their helplessness and anger. A modern day Hindu-Muslim couple struggle between the survival instinct to hide their true indentites and the desire to assert them. A boy having lost most of his family in the riots,wanders through the streets searching for his missing father. A saintly musician clings on to his idealism until an evidence of civil stife shakes his faith.

The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories.