Author: Naseeruddin Shah
Sarika/
Director/Composer/Na: Rahul Dholakia/Zakir Hussain
Publisher: Eagle Video
Year: 2007
Language: multilingual
Pages: NA
ISBN/UPC (if available): EDVDP-2201
Description
Parzania is the breathtaking untold story of one family and a community loss, during an act of communal violence that stunned the world and changed a country forever.
Cyrus and his family are Parsi, followers of a rarely practiced religion that is both small in numbers and neutral to religious politics. They are middle class and live happily in a housing development, which is mostly Muslim. He has a beautiful wife named Shernaz. Strong and practical at times, only her inner strength keeps the family going. Parzan is their imaginative 10 year old boy and Dilshad their adorable daughter.
Parzania is the imaginary perfect world created by Parzan, where the buildings are made of chocolate, the mountains of ice cream and all do is play cricket all day. It is a world that only he and his seven year old title sister Dilshad can truly understand.
One morning, the beauty and peace that is India, is rocked beyond measure, as a fire erupts in a train killing 58 Hindus.
Within 24 hours, 100,000 Hindu citizens storm into Ahmdabad. While Cyrus fights for his own sanity and searches for his child. Allan battles to uncover the truth behind the riots and any possible meaning to the insanity he has witnessed. People start to question the explanation they are give and a human rights commission is formed. But will the truth come out and does any of it Parzania is inspired from true story.
Review:
It’s a story that needs to be heard, a film that needs to be seen, and a PARZANIA that needs to be built on Earth.
- Times of India
2 NATIONAL FILM AWARDS WINNER:
Best Director
Best Actress
Starring:
Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika.
Director: Rahul Dholakia
Music: Zakir Hussain