Madhuja Mukherjee

An extraordinary story of an ordinary woman Mitul, who strives to change things which appear fossilized.

Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.

An orphan with a dream of becoming an actor, relocates to Kolkata. Endowed with the ability to froesee the future, he becomes entangled in a series of criminal activities hampering his career.

2011, Calcutta: the leftist parties are eliminated after three decades in power. Mitul, a lonely young woman, faces the return of the ghost of her deceased grandmother and that of his ex-partner.