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Fiza Ikramullah and her mother Nishatbi wait for Amaan, who went out with friends to help victims during the 1993 Bombay riots and came under attack himself. In 1999 Fiza has finished college and is tired of the uncertainty. She sees Amaan on a road, loses him in traffic, and is convinced he is alive. She mortgages her jewelry to fund a search through the police, the press and politicians. Station officer Prakash Ingle takes her money and admits that Amaan came to him for shelter that night and was told to go to Pakistan. She finds Sawant, whose son Chandu died in the riots, and makes a newspaper print the story of the missing men, which brings her meetings with the politicians VK Singh and Saeed.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fiza (2000)
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- Hrithik Roshan's role as Amaan, Fiza's younger brother, was initially minor, but director Khalid Mohammed greatly expanded it after Roshan's debut film Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai became a breakout success earlier that same year.
- Composer A. R. Rahman was approached to score Fiza but declined over date issues, then agreed to compose just one song, "Piya Haji Ali", with Anu Malik composing the rest of the songs.
- Urmila Matondkar was director Khalid Mohammed's first choice for the title role of Fiza, but the part eventually went to Karisma Kapoor.
