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Cinema at its very best... and then some not quite so at all - The Hindu
January 28 2007
For long the distributors dithered over the fate of "Parzania", an insightful essay on the 2002 Gujarat pogrom. The Censors too took time clearing the film that relates the true story of a Parsi teenager who was separated from his mother as goons burnt down the predominantly Muslim Gulbarga housing society in Ahmedabad, killing and looting with police complicity. Director Rahul Dholakia had to wait a couple of years but he never gave up; never gave in. Result? An absolutely brilliant, brilliant film that neither rankles nor shakes. It merely overwhelms you: with its sheer audacity, with its transparent honesty, and an overriding integrity that prevents any section from making a capital out of a tragedy.
Wonderful cinematography, tight editing, restrained action and superb acting are all reduced to mere props as the film becomes bigger than all the laudable individuals involved with it. It is cinema with a purpose, a world removed from the distilled male fantasies filmmakers dish out week after week.
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