SIDE A & SIDE B

By Rahat KAZMI

RAHAT KAZMI FILMS / INDIAN FILM STUDIOS - as PROD

Black comedy - Completed 2017

SIDE A SIDE B is a humorous and satirical take on complex Kashmir conflict in India and Pakistan, a ?feature ?film about passion of cinema in the shadow of guns

Festivals
& Awards

marche du film 2017
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Black comedy
    • Countries
    • INDIA, CANADA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
    • Languages
    • URDU
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 115 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Rahat KAZMI
    • Writer(s)
    • Rahat KAZMI
    • Producer(s)
    • Rahat KAZMI (RAHAT KAZMI FILMS), Tariq KHAN (TARIQ KHAN PRODUCTIONS), Zeba SAJID (ZEBA SAJID FILMS), Jitesh KUMAR (JITESH KUMAR FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • 1993 Poonch; a small town at (Kashmir) India- Pakistan border,
      where watching TV and films got banned by extremists and three years passed since nobody had watched TV or listened music...

      Bullets hit the walls of houses every night during cross firings between army and extremists... Hameed collects bullet shells and sells them to earn money... He collects money to go to Jammu (city) to watch a film in cinema… and the day come when he succeeds… Hameed is the only person from town who has seen a film that too cinema since years...

      For Imtiyaz and Rasheed, he is the bridge to cinema... Hameed tells them the stories and dialogues of films he watches and all the boys copy his dialogues...

      One fine day Rajan, the hero of that town comes back, who had gone to (Bollywood) Mumbai to become a film star, He is a failure in Mumbai, but a star for these young boys, meeting Rajan changes their lives and thus starts a roller costar journey of making of a film where even watching a film is a punishable act...