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Lihaaf: The Quilt(2019)
Status: Released
Date: 2019-07-19
35%
2 Votes
Time: 1h 25m
Overview:
A period drama, the film is based on Ismat Chugtai's most celebrated story "Lihaaf" (published 1942). The film inter weaves the plot of same sex relationship between Begum and her masseuse and the trial that Ismat underwent after being slapped with a case of obscenity on publishing the story. The film raises themes of homosexuality and freedom of speech that our society is grappling with even today.
Languages: Hindi.
Countries:
France,
India,
Singapore
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Lihaaf: The Quilt
Top 6 Billed Cast
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Ismat Chugtai
Veerendra Saxena
Aslam sahib
Mir Sarwar
Nawab Sahib
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Overview
A period drama, the film is based on Ismat Chugtai's most celebrated story "Lihaaf" (published 1942). The film inter weaves the plot of same sex relationship between Begum and her masseuse and the trial that Ismat underwent after being slapped with a case of obscenity on publishing the story. The film raises themes of homosexuality and freedom of speech that our society is grappling with even today.
Release Date
2019-07-19
Average
3.5
Rating:
1.8 startsTagline
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Languages:
हिन्दी
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