Durj

Durj (2019)

The story of a woman searching for her missing husband that had been killed for hunger by the kidnapper.

Date of release
2019-10-11
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Director
Shamoon Abbasi

Casting

Interesting facts

Durj is a 2019 Pakistani Urdu-language mystery thriller film, written and directed by Shamoon Abbasi and produced by Dodi Khan. The film stars Shamoon Abbasi, Sherry Shah, Maira Khan, Dodi Khan, Nouman Javaid and Hafeez Ali. The film is based on true events and a large part of it is about cannibalism. Inspired by two actual cases of cannibalism in Pakistan, particularly that of a pair of brothers from Bhakkar who devoured over 100 corpses and were set free despite their dastardly crimes, solely because no law exists against cannibalism in Pakistan's penal code.

Production

In an interview with Dawn News, Abbasi stated that the film was inspired by true events which took place in Punjab and that although the film is based on Cannibalism it has multiple stories merged into one; "Durj's plot does not just revolve around cannibalism, it is about a cannibal but we have multiple stories.

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