Wow! Such a good movie.

Absolutely brilliant

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

"Firaaq' is a non-commercial low budget movie which marks the debut of Nandita Das as a director; and with her directorial venture, she proves she's even a better film-maker than a stunning actress. The film presents the aftermath of Gujrat riots of 2002, and was also said to be banned. The story is seen through a set of characters, especially the Muslims, and their changed lives after the riots. The dialogues and the narration of the story just holds you tight to your seats; and what you see are the rewarding performances from the distinguished performers like Naserudddin Shah, Raghuvir Yadav, Nawazzudin Siddhiquie, and Deepti Naval. The only fault I felt in the movie was though the story gets mounted well, the conclusion feels a bit weak and incomplete and leaves you with a feeling that something is left out.Rating : 2 stars out of 4

This movie is worth its efforts to document the tragic events of 2002 riots in Gujarat, with the main personality behind this project being Nandita Das, who happens to be the director besides being one of the writers, definitely made this movie without having an eye at the box-office. The movie effectively portrays, people from various strata of society getting affected. Such communal riots are not new to India, although their frequency is gradually on decline since independence, but the mere concern to empathize with the victims through this project is laudable, irrespective of the trigger for the same being the burnt railway coach at Godhra. Whenever future generations wants to know and visualize about this incident, then this movie will definitely play an important role along with some other movies like Parzania on the same event.

The movie try to mention that one community is responsible for all the Holocust of 2002. It intentionally support and in climax it encourage that the hatred between Hindus and Muslims will be always there and both communities should always revenge each other. I am not saying whatever happen in 2002 in Gujarat was acceptable, but when someone make movie, when its gonna be on common platform than it should not generalized one sided. Movie actually try to support terrorism and making point that there always will be hatred between Hindu and Muslim.Stupid director like this should only make comedy movies, where they do not need to use their brain. Just for sake of financial success for a low budget movie, they generalized this way. Both communities ignore, the movie at all cost. It will only give you hatred for innocent people who spend their entire life working for their family. If you prefer to watch movie based on terrorism and after math, go for "A Wednesday" and "Mumbai Meri Jaan". This is total non-sense.

After watching this movie, I don't think anyone can justify that its the first movie of an actor turned director 'Nandita Das'. I heard combined views about this movie, however the movie was a fine piece of art. Although the whole movie juggled many different stories together but in the end it seemed like as if everything was being balanced and I am amazed how Nandita managed to conclude it unbiased. Marvellous cinematography, direction and bold dialogs. Hats of Nandita for daring to be so bold and straight to address the most critical issue and that too in such a beautiful package. Nasiruddin Shah's character had very few dialogs but his silence was much more powerful than words. I am surprised that none praised Raghuvir Yadav. Unfortunately, his hard-work remains unnoticed by many due to magnificence of actors such as Naseeruddin Shah. Overall, a great movie and a very courageous debut by Nandita.