Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Naseem

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Jul 5, 2012, 8:09:47 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Naseem'''
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+1995 89’ col Hindi
+d/co-sc Saeed Akhtar Mirza pc NFDC/
+Doordarshan co-sc/dial Ashok Mishra
+c Virendra Saini m Vanraj Bhatia
+lp Kaifi Azmi, Mayuri Kango, Kulbhushan
+Kharbanda, Surekha Sikri, Lalitmohan Tiwari,
+Salim Shah
+
+
+Understated but intense family drama set in
+June-December 1992, the days preceding the
+demolition of the Babri Masjid on Dec 6 by
+Hindutva fanatics. Naseem (Kango) is a
+schoolgirl belonging to a middle-class Bombaybased
+Muslim family. She enjoys a warm
+relationship with her aged, ailing grandfather
+(Azmi). With increasing horror and foreboding,
+the family watches on their television set the
+news of the build-up at Ayodhya while the
+grandfather regales Naseem with poetry and
+stories of life in pre-Independence Agra,
+shown in several flashbacks. Naseem’s brother
+Mushtaq (Shah) tends towards desperate,
+possibly terrorist measures of resistance which
+pushes him towards Muslim fundamentalist
+circles. The family feels increasingly
+beleaguered by saffron-waving mobs and the
+police who infest all public spaces. The
+grandfather dies on December 6th, his death
+coinciding with the news of the mosque’s
+destruction. The film’s major feature, in
+addition to its finely judged creation of moods
+and its admirably controlled performances, is
+noted poet and former radical Azmi playing the
+grandfather, providing not just a reminder but a
+literal embodiment of the cultural traditions
+that were at stake in those tragic days.
+
+[[Film]]