Haider is a movie directed by Vishal Bhardwaj in 2014 and based on the book Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir by Basharat Peer, first published in 2009. The movie features Tabu, Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon, Narendra Jha, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, and others.
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Storyline
In 1995, during the insurgency in Kashmir, Hilaal Meer, a doctor based in Srinagar, agrees to perform an appendectomy on Ikhlaque, the leader of a pro-separatist militant group. To avoid detection, he performs the surgery at his house, much to the chagrin of his wife Ghazala, who questions his allegiance.
Movie vs Book
Year
2014
Minutes
160
Movie Rate
8.10
Source: IMDb
Year
2009
Pages
256
Book Rate
8.00
S: Goodreads
Book
Curfewed Night
Subtitle: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir
Author: Basharat Peer
Country: UK
First published in: 2009
Length: 256 pages
Genre: Biography
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“The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.”
JOSH HUTCHERSON (Actor)
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