Movie Drama
If taking a life is a crime, why is giving a life not a crime?
The patriarch of a religious Muslim family refuses to accept his intersex child, tearing his family apart.
Pakistan Pakistan
Mahira Khan Humaima Malick Atif Aslam Shafqat Cheema Irfan Khoosat Khayyam Sarhadi Manzar Sehbai Iman Ali Zaib Rehman Amr Kashmiri Mahnoor Khan Hania Chima Varda Butt Aima Khan Ali Abbas Maleeha Naipaul Naima Khan Humaira Chaudhri Riaz Mahmood Minahil Akram Rashid Khawaja Gulfam Ramay Meher Sagar Karim Ul Islam Mohammad Haris Sharif Hania Cheema Samina Shakoor Humayun Gul Parvaiz Raheem Imran ul Haq Amran Mujahid Sarfaraz Ansari Munir Nadir Naeem Kashmiri Thomas Almas Boby Honey Albela Lucky Dear Mehwish Munir Ahmad Sagar Kamran
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