&TV's 'Waaris' inspired by Irrfan Khan's movie 'Qissa'?

Remember Irrfan Khan's 2015 movie 'Qissa'? Where Irrfan played a father who makes his daughter think she is the son. He raises her like a son when one day she grows up to realize she is a woman. Well, &TV's news show '

Waaris

' is just like 'Qissa'.

Krushna Abhishek's sister

Aarti Singh

plays the lead in 'Waaris', who disguises her third daughter as a son. She makes everybody around her believe that she has a son.

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The show just like the movie is shot in Punjab.

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An official from the production house, when pointed out similarities with the movie, told that the show is indeed loosely inspired by 'Qissa'.

WATCH: Waaris promo