This movie is inspired from the true events that happened during the communal violence in Gujarat (India) that started with a carnage and ended with a genocide.
The story starts with a picture perfect parsi middle class family, with the roles of husband and wife played by Naseruddin Shah and Sarika respectively. There's also this character, an American guy writing his thesis on Gandhi and trying to find the answers to his questions about life. The couple has a son named Parzan and daughter Dilshad. They happen to live in a neighborhood predominantly dominated by muslims. The story is about the sequence of events that happen on the day after the Godhra carnage, where in less than 30 hours tens of thousands of fanatics mobbed the city, burnt and butchered men, women and children, raped women and girls, burnt houses and property belonging to muslims. Withing 72 hours almost a thousand living human beings were dead because they happened to be muslims. Cirus and Sehnaz lost their only son Parzan.
Technically the movie has too many drawbacks, I fail to understand why the movie was made in english. The common people depicted in the movie speaking english sounded strange. The movie has really excellent performance from Sarika (she got the best actress award in the national film festival just days back for this role), Naseruddin Shah and Raj Zutshi, but rest of the characters fail to do their job very well.
Its a must watch movie not because its a masterpiece in its script or direction or photgraphy, but rather for touching the truth which needs to be spoken and reminded.
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