Parzania
No, it’s not a great film - but through the tragedy of one family, it asks us to imagine the violence that rocked Gujarat in February 2002. Thirteen-year old Azhar went missing in the Gulbarg Society violence.
“My daughter Binaifer was holding Azhar when they set the house on fire,” Rupa recalls adding that as they started running away from the house, she fell down. “My daughter tried to pick me up and in the confusion, let go of Azhar,” she adds. “I was shouting and asking them to run, Azhar too ran along,” Rupa recalls, adding that once her daughter let him go, the family never again saw him. “Our eyes were blinded by the smoke and we couldn’t see properly at that time,” she says. Azhar, who was a student of Amrut High School, Shahibaugh Cantonment, was all of 13 years then.
