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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I went through the movie and felt like it was flowing into my mind, as it had an innovative sequence of scenes that are classified in such a way, which emits reality out of it and makes you feel the real story of King Hamlet and his madness that causes him too much loss. At one point he faces the loss of his social status due to getting real blame (correctly a misunderstanding) of being criminal and accused of murdering the father of his lover. While on the other hand, he also loses trust of his lover. The desire of revenge changes into a big mistake of Haider's life. In the movie, Haidar, the replacing of character Hamlet with the name Haider really adds charm in the entire scenario. Aside from it, I really liked Shahid Kapoor's role as Haider. The rest is suspense.

As long as the audience is not expected to have any kind of sympathy towards the characters - Haider, Roohdar and the Doctor(Haider's father) - and are not expected to kinda curse or hate the Indian militants, Tabu's character and Khurram(KK Menon), in the movie, THEN it is completely an appreciable movie. In a nutshell, Vishal Bharadwaj has demonstrated the other side of the coin. I didn't get disturbed at all by the sorrowful scenes like when the doctor's house is blasted off, or when Haider's father is tortured and killed by militants, or when Haider is beaten up badly.. Such scenes rather made me feel happy. That is because the character 'Haider' himself is supporting the cruel. If Haider was an Indian and he knew that his father was a terrorist, then why would he opt for Sarhad Paar and take his father's so called 'Intequam' to kill his uncle? Also another twist which I found irrelevant is why would Tabu approach Irrfan Khan at the end? So, personally, I loved the script and believe that it definitely deserved all the awards but it could've been taken in a different reference.

I really wanted to see this film since it was highly recommended to me. I liked parts of it, other parts I did not. I liked cinematography and acting. But plot was a little bit confusing and film is way, way too long. Kashmir problem is well known to us, it is a problem which is still unresolved and plagues relationships between two nations, India and Pakistan.There are some nice dances in this film and some nice singing, but for me most of this film was a little bit boring and too long.If you are interested in India and Pakistan and Kashmir, this is a film for you, otherwise I really can not recommend to the general audience, I simply think it is not geared towards Western audiences.

January 2014:Attending a screening of the first ever Lollywood movie which claimed to have been filmed completely in English, (that actually turned out to only be half in English,which thanks to the lack of Subtitles led to me not having a clue what the characters were talking about for half the time!)in the gritty Thriller Waar,I was taken aback by a breath- taking trailer,for what appeared to be a Bollywood adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.December 2014:After spending the whole of the X-Mas period ill in bed,I decided to make New Years Eve a better event,by trying to track down a DVD of Haider. Stumbling on a news report about there being a court case in India that was attempting to stop the movie coming out on DVD over there,I was happy to discover that the UK DVD of the title was due to come out in 3 days time,which led to me getting ready to finally meet Haider.The plot:Returning home after the sudden disappearance of his dad Dr. Hilal Meer during a shoot-out over the separatism of Kashmir, Haider Meeris is surprised to find that instead of being desperate to locate him,his mum Ghazala Meer appears to be having a jolly old time with her brother in law Khurram Meer.Learning that his dad was taken for questioning by the military,Haider gets into contact with a mysterious stranger called Roohdar,who tells Haider that both he and his dad were tortured in a detention camp,which Hilal claimed he was placed in,thanks to Khurram being an undercover informant.Taking a closer look at Khurram and Ghazala's relationship,Haider begins making plans on getting revenge for their betrayal. View on the film:From the opening of the film,the score from composer/singer/co- writer (along with journalist Basharat Peer)/directing auteur Vishal Bhardwaj becomes deeply entwined with the unfolding tragedy being underlined by the industrial hum of Bhardwaj's score unleashed an extremely strong atmosphere of impending slowly covering the landscape of Kashmir.Keeping away from including any songs designed to make the soundtrack a chart topper,Bhardwaj emphasises the feelings expressed in the score,by making each of the songs (one of which is sung very well by Bhardwaj) lay bare sections of Haider's personality that are about to fall over the edge.Filmed entirely on location in Kashmir over 2 harsh seasons, (with the first section being shot during the late autumn season of November-December 2013,and the final part of the title being completed during a freezing winter season of January-February 2014)Bhardwaj and cinematographer Pankaj Kumar beautifully open every wound that the battle scar city has suffered.Placing Haider in a corrupt world filled with death & betrayal,Bhardwaj and Kumar give the first half of the title a stark,washed out appearance,whose clarity increases with Haider sets his eyes towards those who betrayed his dad. Casting a suffocating Film Noir shadow across the title,Bhardwaj & Kumar steam the darkness out of the screenplay by covering the screen in mountains of snow,which along with showing the coldness inside Haider,also reveals the destruction of purity in Haider's loved ones,as their blood turns the snow a frosty red.Collaborating with journalist Basharat Peer, (writer of the highly- praised book Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir)Bhardwaj and Peer make their modern take on Shakespeare's dialogue one that never feels gimmicky,but precise,and perfectly fitting with the decay that infects Haider.Avoiding any option of taking the film in an easy Bollywood melodrama route,the writers cast a critical eye over Kashmir,with Haider's revenge tale being used in a mature allegorical manner to show the recurring acts of violence that take place across the Kashmir boarder.Bringing a fresh-face Haider back to Kashmir,the writer's strike the film with a tremendous intensity,with Haider's relationship with his family being closely examined ,which allows for the gaps in the relationships to be exposed to a brittle sunlight.Peeling away Haider's levels of sanity,the writer's keep an unflinching eye on showing Haider's toxic revenge engulf all signs of humanity that he possessed.Shimmering across the screen,Tabu gives a remarkable performance as Haider's mum,with Tabu showing Ghazala to have a closed-in nature to her surroundings,which leads to Tabu showing the hope on Ghazala's face that Haider is still her little boy.Bringing the Oedipus complex in Ghazala and Haider's relationship,Tabu keeps away from any over dramatic notes to instead express Ghazala feelings about her son entirely through body language,with every gesture that she makes towards Haider lingering that little bit too long.Turning down (along with Vishal Bhardwaj) his wage so that every penny could be put on screen, Shahid Kapoor gives an extraordinary,trans-formative performance.Entering the film rather innocently,Kapoor makes Haider's desire to avenge his dads death an idea whose grip intensity's,as Haider feels his dad's shadow wrap around in,as he looks with new eyes at everyone who he has ever known.Sliding Haider into insanity,Kapoor wisely keeps the ghost in Haider's life on his shoulders,so that no matter how psychotic the character gets,his roots are always laid bare,as Haider wonders to be, or not to be.