| Haider | |
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| Directed by | Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Written by | Basharat Peer Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Story by | Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Based on | Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
| Produced by | Vishal Bhardwaj Siddharth Roy Kapur |
| Starring | Shahid Kapoor Tabu Kay Kay Menon Shraddha Kapoor Irrfan Khan |
| Cinematography | Pankaj Kumar |
| Edited by | Aarif Sheikh |
| Music by | Vishal Bhardwaj |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 160 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | ₹35 crore[1] |
| Box office | ₹85 crore[1] |
Haider is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language political crime thriller film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, who co-produced it with Siddharth Roy Kapur, and written by Bhardwaj and Basharat Peer. It stars Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Kay Kay Menon, Shraddha Kapoor and Irrfan Khan.
Set amidst the insurgency-hit Kashmir conflicts of 1995, Haider is a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. It is also based on Basharat Peer's memoir Curfewed Night.[2] Haider, a young student and a poet, returns to Kashmir at the peak of the conflict to seek answers about his father's disappearance and ends up being tugged into the politics of the state.[3] Haider is the third installment of Bhardwaj's Shakespearean trilogy after Maqbool (2003) and Omkara (2006).[4]
The film was screened at the 19th Busan International Film Festival,[5] and released worldwide on 2 October 2014 to widespread critical acclaim; it was a major commercial success at the box-office, garnering attention from the media due to its controversial subject matter.[3] The subject matter, direction, story, screenplay, film score, cinematography, editing, and performances of the ensemble cast received high critical praise and garnered several accolades.
Haider was the first Indian film to win the People's Choice Award at the Rome Film Festival.[3][6] At the 62nd National Film Awards, Haider won a leading 5 awards: Best Music Direction (Bhardwaj), Best Male Playback Singer (Sukhwinder Singh for "Bismil"), Best Dialogue (Bhardwaj), Best Choreography (Sudesh Adhana for "Bismil") and Best Costume Design (Dolly Ahluwalia). At the 60th Filmfare Awards, Haider received 9 nominations, including Best Film and Best Director (Bhardwaj), and won 5 awards including Best Actor (Shahid Kapoor), Best Supporting Actor (Menon) and Best Supporting Actress (Tabu).
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- ^ "Kay Kay Menon to play Shahid Kapoor's evil uncle in 'Haider'". The Indian Express. 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^ a b c Vikas Pandey (7 October 2014). "Haider: Why is 'Indian Hamlet' controversial?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ Muzaffar Raina (25 November 2013). "Protests hit Haider shoot on Valley campus". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 20 April 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
- ^ "'Haider', 'Finding Fanny' to Screen at Busan Film Fest". The Times of India. 4 September 2014. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ^ "I have had the longest and the shortest hair in Haider: Shahid Kapoor". The Times of India. 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.