Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma’s ‘Talvar’ to release on October 2

Konkona, 35, who is playing the lead in the film, took to Twitter to announce the release date and also shared the first poster of the movie.

“Our new film #Talvar releases 2nd October. #excite” she wrote.

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” lang=”en”&gt;<p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Our new film <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Talvar?src=hash”>#Talvar</a&gt; releases 2nd October. Here's the first teaser! <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/excite?src=hash”>#excite</a&gt; <a href=”http://t.co/PY2qf2X4vI”>pic.twitter.com/PY2qf2X4vI</a></p>&mdash; Konkona Sensharma (@konkonas) <a href=”https://twitter.com/konkonas/status/634702768742133764″>August 21, 2015</a></blockquote>
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The poster features, blindfolded Lady Justice with a sword in hand and court documents in the background.

“India’s most controversial case reopens on 2nd October” the poster reads.

The story revolves around the sensational murder of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and 45-year-old Hemraj Banjade, a domestic help in Noida, India on the night of 15-16 May 2008.

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The film has been selected for world premiere in ‘Special Presentations’ section at the Toronto International Film Festival that runs from September 10 to 20.

Legendary poet-lyricist and Meghna’s father Gulzar has written the lyrics for the film.

The movie will be shot by Pankaj Kumar of “Haider” and “Ship Of Theseus” fame.

“Talvar”, is not a first film based on the much controversial double-murder-case. “Rahasya”, directed by Manish Gupta and starring Kay Kay Menon and Tisca Chopra that released earlier this year, was also based on the same murder mystery.