Qissa

Set in postcolonial 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