Plot: Set in the year 1995 in the valley of Kashmir, the movie is Vishal Bharadwaj's own adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. A humanitarian and peace-loving doctor who does his profession with honesty is doing his duty in saving the life of a militant. For this act of harboring a terrorist the army and the police department arrest him and lodge him in their control with no traces left of his identity. The doctor's son tries his best to find out his father, but is shocked to find the reality of the incidents that happened to this effect, about his mother and his paternal uncle. What happens thereon makes Haider's melancholia.
Alternative Plot: In Kashmir, a young man discovers not only that his mother is having an affair with his uncle but also that the man is responsible for his father's gruesome murder.
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