Hamid
Hamid is an Indian Urdu-language drama that premiered in 2018, directed by Aijaz Khan, about a young Kashmiri boy trying to contact his missing father and unexpectedly forming a connection with an army officer.
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Credits and facts
Movie details
- Runtime
- 108 minutes
- Country
- India
- Languages
- Urdu
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Aijaz Khan
- Writers
- Ravinder Randhawa, Sumit Saxena
- Cast
- Talha Arshad Reshi as Hamid, Rasika Dugal, Vikas Kumar
- Producers
- Siddharth Anand Kumar, Vikram Mehra
- Production company
- Yoodlee Films
Spoiler-free synopsis
Seven-year-old Hamid lives in Kashmir after his father disappears. Believing that 786 is God's number, he repeatedly dials a phone number hoping to ask for his father to return. The number reaches an Indian security officer carrying his own emotional wounds, and an unlikely telephone connection develops between two people affected by the conflict.
For families
Editorial guidance
Context for discussing the story and deciding whether it fits your household.
Positive messages
Constructive themes or examples.Constructive discussion around Hamid can focus on empathy, responsibility, honesty and the consequences of characters’ choices. Families can compare how people respond to pressure, relationships, conflict and social expectations, and identify moments where cooperation, courage, perseverance or compassion matter. Where characters make flawed decisions, parents can contrast those choices with safer, fairer or more respectful alternatives and distinguish dramatic storytelling from appropriate real-world behaviour.
Negative behaviours
Conduct that may need context.The principal concern identified for Hamid is Kashmir conflict, disappearance, grief, military tension and a child coping with loss. Characters may also make risky, deceptive, aggressive, impulsive or emotionally harmful choices that younger viewers could misread without context. Social attitudes, relationship behaviour or conflict may require explanation. Because a complete scene-by-scene audit was not available for every sequence, this guide does not mark violence, sexual material, harsh language, substance use or disturbing themes as absent merely because a catalog source is silent.
Topics to discuss
Conversation starters after viewing.Parents can discuss which choices in Hamid protect other people and which create harm, whether consequences feel fair, and how the story handles trust, relationships and responsibility. Another useful topic is media literacy: an official CBFC certificate, an OTT platform label and an editorial age recommendation serve different purposes. For older children and teenagers, ask how the film’s genre and cultural context shape conflict, humour, romance, fear or social commentary and what would work differently in real life.
Final recommendation
Our family-viewing take
Suggested minimum age: 12+. The family-viewing verdict is mostly; for children it is use_caution, for teenagers yes, and for parents yes. The strongest concerns are Kashmir conflict, disappearance, grief, military tension and a child coping with loss. Because an exact title-specific Indian CBFC page and a complete scene-by-scene advisory were not verified for this batch record, this is a cautious editorial recommendation. Shared viewing is most comfortable at or above the suggested age, with parental preview recommended for younger or sensitive viewers.
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