Daira

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

Original title: Circle

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

Drama

Daira

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