SYNOPSICS

Lihaaf: The Quilt (2019) is a Hindi movie. Rahat Kazmi has directed this movie. Tannishtha Chatterjee,Sonal Sehgal,Virendra Saxena,Rahat Kazmi are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2019. Lihaaf: The Quilt (2019) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.

A period drama, the film is based on Ismat Chugtai's most celebrated story "Lihaaf" (published 1942). The film inter weaves the plot of same sex relationship between Begum and her masseuse and the trial that Ismat underwent after being slapped with a case of obscenity on publishing the story. The film raises themes of homosexuality and freedom of speech that our society is grappling with even today.