MUMBAI: Home video major Shemaroo has released the film Anwar on DVD and VCD.

This film, introduced Siddharth Koirala who is actress Manisha Koirala's brother. It was made by director Manish Jha.

Shemaroo says that while the theatrical release has not made waves, its home video release has tremendous potential. The hope is that it will be popular among offbeat movie fans.

Anwar is a sensitive Muslim youth in his early twenties who inevitably faces a harsh reality, which stirs a conflict within him. It is this journey which the film takes you through. Nauheed Cyrusi is the love of Anwars life and through the film her constant effort is to battle the status quo placed upon Muslim women.

Manisha Koirala's role forms the basis for large parts of the films narrative since she plays a principled journalist for a leading television channel, where she reports on the controversial situation.