Zoya Hussain – MRQE

Ground Zero

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An Indian army officer embarks on a mission leading to Indias most successful counter-terrorism operation in history.

Tees

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Spanning across 90 years, follow a middle-class Muslim family across three generations. 2042. Six months after his manuscript titled Tees (30) is rejected for publication by the Literature and Arts Commission, Anhad Draboo, a young freelance prostitute, meets Niharika, a reader from the Commission who has been searching for Anhad ever since she read his manuscript. 2018. Zia Draboo, a corporate lawyer living in Mumbai and all set to buy the flat she has been renting with her partner Meera, finds out she cannot buy it because of the Housing Societys resistance to her name. 1989-90. Ayesha, a housebound State Radio newsreader in Srinagar, Kashmir, reaches out to her childhood friend Usha to solicit help from her husband a government official. She needs it for her own husband, Ghulam Muhammad, who faces bankruptcy and ruin amongst rising unrest in the city.

“Freedom”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

It follows a family that is interwoven with the personal, ideological and sexual history of India.

Bhaiyya Ji

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After his younger brother is tragically killed over a petty argument, a feared and retired criminal Bhaiyya Ji, sets out to seek justice against the powerful Gujjar responsible, mobilizing his loyal comrades and igniting a wave of vengeance that threatens to shake the criminal underworld.

The Winter Within

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Srinagar, the winter capital of Kashmir in India, Nargis is a domestic worker for a wealthy family. She looks for her husband, Manzoor, hoping he is still alive, locked up in a military camp. Fired from her job she is left with no choice but to return to her village.

Ankahi Kahaniya

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As big city life buzzes around them, lonely souls discover surprising sources of connection and companionship in three tales of love, loss and longing.

Namdev Bhau

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this endearing black comedy, a 65-year-old who can’t take noisy Mumbai anymore sets off on a thwarted quest for Himilayan silence.

Mukkabaaz

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A low caste boxer trains at a gym controlled by a local Don. Shravan falls for Mishra’s niece. The Don does not approve of this match. Shravan strives to win Sunaina’s hand in marriage and become a successful boxer while trying to avoid retaliation from the Don.

Three and a Half

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of one house in three different eras. Where 50 years ago it was divided between a school and an apartment, in which a young boy struggles with the pressures of pre-pubescent school life, coupled with being compelled to share a tiny room with his paralysed, disconsolate grandfather. Who in turn has devious plans for the child’s 12th birthday which happens to fall on a leap year. The same building 20 years later becomes home to a brothel, where a young unexploited concubine is dealing with her self-proclaimed “first” client who has a strange inability to fulfil his physical desire unless obligated to the duress of a transaction to do so. Now, 30 years later these same walls surround a sublime home which belongs to a soul-stirring 75 year old couple who love, laugh and dance together. They whisper the secrets of time forgone and seemed to have overcome the undying need for love and escape which seems to have plagued the inhabitants of this house in the past.

Haathi Mere Saathi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a wealthy real estate company, backed by a powerful minister decides to build a township in a reserve forest area, it cuts off access to the water body to the elephants living in the area, endangering their lives. An eco-warrior decides to fight for their cause at a time when nobody else would.