Circle

2002

2h 35min

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