Circle

Name: Circle
Director: Azfar Ali
Released: 2002-01-01
Duration: 155 min
Cast: Ayesha Alam, Adnan Siddiqui, Shahzad Nawaz, Amir Abbas

January 1, 2002

2h 35m

Drama

"A vicious circle of love, lust, longing, and Lahore."

Overview

based on the international bestseller Moth Smoke, authored by Mohsin Hamid. Set in Lahore, Daira is a film about givings and misgivings, love and deceit, or as Hamid puts it, the “cooled” and the “uncooled”. A portrait of contemporary Pakistan featuring an adulterous romance between two ultra-rich jet setters. He is a banker and she is the wife of his best friend, and she is escaping the constraints of marriage and motherhood by prowling the city as a journalist