Durj
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.
Plot
Dr Farah Maira Khan, a Pakistani psychologist, gets access to a notorious recaptured cannibal, Gul Buksh Shamoon Abbasi, incarcerated in a high security prison. Dr Farah's objective is to find her missing journalist husband. And she strongly suspects Buksh might have the answer.
More details
| author | Shamoon Abbasi |
|---|---|
| director | Shamoon Abbasi |
| editor | Shaam Films |
| genre | action crime mystery thriller |
| keywords | chain cook dig hunt police brutality police force solitary confinement |
| musicBy | Asif Noorani |
| producer | Dodi Khan Sherry Shah |
| productionCompany | Blunt Digital Shaam Films |
| publisher | Distribution Club Green Chillies Entertatinment IMGC Zashko Films |
| theme | mystery thriller |