Raazi (2018) on Netflix
NR20182h 18m
Hidayat Khan is dying of lung cancer and wants his daughter Sehmat to continue the family's work for Indian intelligence. He arranges her marriage into a Pakistani military family.
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Plot summary
Hidayat Khan works for Indian intelligence while presenting himself as a Pakistani informant. Lung cancer leaves him little time, so he asks Sehmat, his twenty-year-old daughter and a Delhi University student, to take up the family's work. She joins the Research and Analysis Wing and is trained by Khalid Mir and Nikhil Bakshi. Through her father's friendship with Brigadier Parvez Syed, a match is arranged with the brigadier's younger son, Major Iqbal, and Sehmat moves into the family's home in Rawalpindi, the army's headquarters. She settles into married life there and wins the confidence of the household. She establishes contact with her handlers in India and begins relaying what she learns.
Cast
- Aman Vasishthas Nikhil Bakshi - Younger
- Veer Samraas Nafisa
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Raazi (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In July 2020 the novel's author, Harinder S. Sikka, accused Meghna Gulzar of changing the film's title without his permission and of never showing him the contractually promised director's cut. He said Meghna Gulzar and her father took a pro-Pakistani stand, and that producers Jain and Johar tried to discredit him.
- Raazi's Patiala shoot was halted for days by violence and a curfew that followed the 25 August 2017 conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, and the unrest forced the film's final schedule to move from Punjab to Delhi.
- The Raazi song "Ae Watan" also contains the lyrics of Allama Iqbal's nazm "Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua", which is the national prayer of Pakistan.
