Durj

Durj
Directed byShamoon Abbasi
Written byShamoon Abbasi
Based onTrue Events
Produced byDodi Khan
Sherry Shah
Starring
CinematographyShamoon Abbasi
Ayaz Ahmed
Edited byShaam Films
Music byAsif Noorani
Production
companies
Shaam Films
Blunt Digital
Distributed byZashko Films
IMGC
Distribution Club
Green Chillies Entertatinment
Release date
  • 10 October 2019 (2019-10-10)
Running time
140 minutes
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu

Durj is a 2019 Pakistani Urdu-language mystery thriller film, written and directed by Shamoon Abbasi and produced by Dodi Khan.The film stars Shamoon Abbasi, Sherry Shah, Maira Khan, Dodi Khan, Nouman Javaid and Hafeez Ali. The film is based on true events and a large part of it is about cannibalism. Inspired by two actual cases of cannibalism in Pakistan, particularly that of a pair of brothers from Bhakkar who devoured over 100 corpses and were set free despite their dastardly crimes, solely because no law exists against cannibalism in Pakistan's penal code.