Director : Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Script : Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Cinematographer : Sheikh Rajibul Islam, Alexey Kosorukov
Editing : Momin Biswas
Sound : Ripon Nath
Music : A.R. Rahman
Cast : Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Megan Mitchell, Tahsan Khan, Eisha Chopra
Production :
Chabial ans Dialectic Production
Contact :
Shrihari Sathe
[email protected]
Year : 2022
DCP, Color, 101 mn, OV english, urdu, hindi, bengali, french, with english and french ST
French first screening
In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while travelling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years before, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relationship deepens, Naveen's lies become bolder. The man known as Naveen, or Sameer, cannot tell the truth about anything, including his name, nationality, religion, family, and past. Persecuted in one country for being a "non-Muslim" and in another for being a "Muslim", Naveen Cheema finds temporary shelter in the apparent protection of a fabricated identity.
“I only know one way of making films. I like to give a cinematic interpretation of certain personal feelings. My personal experience in relation to the traumatism that a particular identity can bring has played a crucial part in the way I think and see the world.” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
