Hansal Mehta’s ‘Faraaz’ works better as a document of a tragedy than as a debate about the modern Muslim
- Trinity Auditorium
- Feb 8, 2023
- 1 min read
Spoilers ahead…
Hansal Mehta follows and with another real-life story about the politics of being Muslim – though this time, the interrogation is structured around an incident rather than a single person. Well, let me rephrase that. The title of the new film, , does refer to the character played by Zahan Kapoor – but the narrative is not about him. The screenplay is based on the book , by journalist Nuruzzaman Labu, which details the July 2016 attack on a posh Dhaka restaurant. The attackers were Muslims out to eradicate “-s”, and the film is a kind of dialogue between the liberal, moderate Muslim represented by the likes of Faraaz, and the hate-filled terrorists headed by Nibras (Aditya Rawal). Both men are in their twenties, and when they square off, the discussion moves to a new generation.
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