At the 62nd National Film Awards, Haider won a leading 5 awards: Best Music Direction (Bhardwaj), Best Male Playback Singer ( Sukhwinder Singh for 'Bismil'), Best Dialogue (Bhardwaj), Best Choreography (Sudesh Adhana for 'Bismil') and Best Costume Design ( Dolly Ahluwalia). Haider was the first Indian film to win the People's Choice Award at the Rome Film Festival. The subject matter, direction, story, screenplay, film score, cinematography, editing, and performances of the ensemble cast received high critical praise and garnered several accolades. The film was screened at the 19th Busan International Film Festival, and released worldwide on 2 October 2014 to widespread critical acclaim and was a commercial success at the box-office, garnering attention from the media due to its controversial subject matter. Haider is the third installment of Bhardwaj's Shakespearean trilogy after Maqbool (2003) and Omkara (2006). Haider, a young student and a poet, returns to Kashmir at the peak of the conflict to seek answers about his father's disappearance and ends up being tugged into the politics of the state. It is also based on Basharat Peer's memoir Curfewed Night. Set amidst the insurgency-hit Kashmir conflicts of 1995, Haider is a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. It stars Shahid Kapoor and Tabu in lead roles, with Kay Kay Menon, Shraddha Kapoor and Irrfan Khan in supporting roles. Haider is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, co-produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, and co-written by Basharat Peer.

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