Firaaq Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Cool based on 9 reviews
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2.9
Verdict: Cool based on 50 reviews & ratings
4.0
Sukanya Verma | rediff.com
Oblivious to its brutal job description, an impassive truck monotonously carries a pile of dead bodies and dumps it into a ploughed ground. Unlike an iron-made carrier though, the hands that bury those corpsesRead full review
3.5
Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com
Film-makers across the globe have often told stories of calamities/riots/disasters -- natural and unnatural -- and the aftermath. FIRAAQ, which marks the directorial debut of actress Nandita Das, also looksRead full review
3.5
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
When times get bestial, do humans get beastly too? That's the probing question that debutant director Nandita Das poses in this pithy little film that says so much through its power-packed contentRead full review
3.0
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
From its very opening scene of a truck dumping dozens of corpses at a graveyard site for mass burial, Nandita Das makes it clear that her directorial debut, Firaaq is not going to be an easy watchRead full review
3.0
Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph
In the last scene of Shyam Benegal’s Ankur, a child hurled a stone at the landlord’s house and the new wave of Indian parallel cinema came crashing in. Around 35 years later, the child in Nandita Das’s FiraaqRead full review
3.0
Udita Jhunjhunwala | DNA India
Recent films like Slumdog Millionaire, Delhi 6 and Firaaq share one characteristic: they hold up a mirror to society. Set over a 24-hour period a month after the Godhra incident in Gujarat in 2002, Firaaq opensRead full review
3.0
Mayank Shekhar | Mumbai Mirror
Naseer the actor is also a brilliant orator; a talent that comes naturally to him from stage. It’s a genius that filmmakers repeatedly exploit to conveniently drive home points in their movies. He made a stirring speechRead full review2.5
Aniruddha Guha | DNA India
Nandita Das chooses to make a brave debut as director with Firaaq. As an actor, she has always been known to push the envelope but goes a step further in her first effort behind the camera and chooses a subjectRead full review
2.5
Bryan Durham | Mid-Day
As is wont in the aftermath of every holocaust slash mass murder slash genocide, there is a cacophony of voices waiting to be heard of denials, of rabid fear, of remorseless rancour, of endless pain.Read full reviewNR
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
The film is a balanced, sensitive documentation of contemporary India's most trying times and posits a much-needed plea for sanity, peace and tolerance.Read full review
