Josh: Independence Through Unity Poster

Josh: Independence Through Unity (2013)

08/09/2013 Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime 1h 44m
79%
User
Score
7.0/10

Overview

Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Fatima travels to investigate her disappearance and finds a dangerous truth about Nusrat and her village.

Iram Parveen Bilal

Director

Farah Usman

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Aamina Sheikh

Aamina Sheikh

Fatima

Khalid Malik

Khalid Malik

Adil

Mohib Mirza

Mohib Mirza

Uzair

Naveen Waqar

Naveen Waqar

Ayla

Adnan Shah Tipu

Adnan Shah Tipu

Gulsher

Faizan Haqquee

Faizan Haqquee

Zeeshan

Khalid Ahmed

Khalid Ahmed

Khawaja

Saleem Mairaj

Saleem Mairaj

Master Khalid

Parveen Akbar

Parveen Akbar

Parveen

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Media

JOSH (AGAINST THE GRAIN) Trailer - LIFF 2013

JOSH (AGAINST THE GRAIN) Trailer - LIFF 2013

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Reviews

A review by alcapoon

Written on January 28, 2015

Cinema is a visually powerful medium. It allows a craftsman to instill thought provoking understanding of some aspects of the social environment around us. A successful filmmaker effectively builds this larger than life cinematographic experience with the use of images, sounds and then post processes and edits them to create a view that sparks an intellectual thought process of emotions.

On June 8, 2013, in Toronto, we witnessed Pakistani independent filmmaker Iram Parveen Bilal's endeavor, Josh (English title: Against The Grain) that left us with an experience of empathic closeness to the situations and circumstances portrayed on the screen, nostalgia took over as beautifully shot images of Karachi ran frame by frame on the large screen.

Josh has an interesting ensemble of some of t...

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