Durj (2019)

Directed by

Shamoon Abbasi

Genre

crime, mystery, thriller

Country

Pakistan

Runtime

1h 50m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is based on true events about cannibalism in Pakistan. It follows the story of brothers who ate over 100 corpses and were released because there is no law against cannibalism. The movie focuses on the crimes and the legal loophole that let them go free.

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What happens

Durj is a 2019 Pakistani Urdu-language mystery thriller film, written and directed by Shamoon Abbasi and produced by Dodi Khan.The film stars Shamoon Abbasi, Sherry Shah, Maira Khan, Dodi Khan, Nouman Javaid and Hafeez Ali. The film is based on true events and a large part of it is about cannibalism. Inspired by two actual cases of cannibalism in Pakistan, particularly that of a pair of brothers from Bhakkar who devoured over 100 corpses and were set free despite their dastardly crimes, solely because no law exists against cannibalism in Pakistan's penal code. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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