refugee camps as similar as possible to the
real ones 30 years ago (19 January 1990),
actual refugees were cast. Approximately
4,000 out of 400,000 refugees, who are
currently inhabitants of Jagti Nagrota
Migrant Camp and other refugee camps
agreed to take part. They were women,
children and older people. Refugee camp
scenes were shot for several days and
nights in Bhagwati Nagar,Jammu.
On 7 January 2020 official trailer of the film
was launched by Fox Star Studios. On 27
January 2020 second official trailer of the
film was launched by Fox Star Studios.
AR Rahman played the theme of Shikara
live in the launch event. On 14 January
2020 A 'behind the scenes' video released
shows 4000 refugees coming together
after 30 years to take part in the production
of refugee camp scenes. Names of few
refugees, home town before fleeing and
their experiences are shown in the video.
The film was released on 7 February 2020.
The film's songs are composed by Sandesh
Shandilya, Abhay Sopori and Rohit Kulkarni
with lyrics written by Irshad Kamil, Bashir
Arif and Raqueeb Alam. The film score was
composed by AR Rahman and Qutub-E-
Kripa. The film received a critical response
but it could not mint money at the box-office.
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