Haddi

About the film

Haddi is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Akshat Ajay Sharma and produced by Zee Studios along with Anandita Studios. The film stars an Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anurag Kashyap and Ila Arun in key roles.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays a double role in the film, one of which is transgender.

Production

The film was announced in August 2022 with a teaser poster of Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a transgender person. The shoots started soon after. It was shot across western Uttar Pradesh including Noida and Ghaziabad.

Midway through the shoots, Nawaz shared a video of the three-hour daily process to get ready for the shoots.

Reception

Zinia Bandyopadhyay of India Today rated the film 3 out of 5, praising the performance. Monika Rawal Kukreja of Hindustan Times too praised Nawaz's performance and commented, "The way he adapts the body language, dialect and overall persona of a transgender is on-point."

Rating it 2.5 out of 5, Saibal Chatterjee in his review for NDTV wrote, "Haddi is a revenge drama with a marked difference - it pushes issues relating to trans people to the fore with broad strokes and delivers an appeal for inclusivity."

Criticising the film, Shilajit Mitra of The Hindu commented, "It wears its noir griminess on its sleeve, and there are too many styles and tonalities jostling for attention at a given moment."

Music

The music of the film is composed by Rohan-Rohan while lyrics written by Rohan Gokhale.

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