
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Cast: Tabu
Shahid Kapoor
Shraddha Kapoor
Kay Kay Menon
Narendra Jha
Set in the year 1995 in the valley of Kashmir, the movie is Vishal Bharadwaj’s own adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A humanitarian and peace-loving doctor who does his profession with honesty is doing his duty in saving the life of a militant. For this act of harboring a terrorist the army and the police department arrest him and lodge him in their control with no traces left of his identity. The doctor’s son tries his best to find out his father, but is shocked to find the reality of the incidents that happened to this effect, about his mother and his paternal uncle. What happens thereon makes Haider’s melancholia.::PipingHotViews