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Azaar

Azaar
Azaar

Film Details

Year

2019

Duration

22 minutes

Genres

Drama, Period and Historical, Short Films

Language

Urdu


Synopsis

In a rural, mountainous village in 1800s India, a young girl named Azaar watches, enchanted, as her mother’s red veil billows around her in the wind. Red-veiled women run this tribe. The men have long been away fighting a war, and the only male figure who occasionally visits is an Arab trader. Azaar comes to understand that the red veils are a symbol of womanhood and honour, and are somehow connected with menstruation, which is still a mystery to her. In her eagerness to be just like her mother, she inadvertently uncovers the lonely woman’s vulnerability, spreading shockwaves among their cloistered community and across the desert landscape. This visually striking drama offers a through-provoking commentary on societal and cultural expectations and provides a powerful example of effective screenwriting for short film.

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