Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name of Islam. Another argued that the use of Arabic chanting in the documentary demonized the Arabic language. The chants in question were in fact calls to violence, naturally spoken in the language that these militants speak. Another man argued that Emerson propagates generalizations damaging to the Muslim community. I can only assume that this critic wasn't listening when during the film, the lecture and his interrogation by hostile audience members, Emerson differentiated between the radical fringe and mainstream Islam at least half a dozen times...
...prospective trilogy Fire, Earth and Water, tells the tragic story of the 1947 partition of India as witnessed by Lenny Sethna (Maia Sethna), an 8 year-old Parsee girl. Based on Bapsi Sidwha's novel Cracking India, Earth explores the controversial British partition of India into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, which caused inter-religious massacres by the same Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims who had lived together peacefully for many years. Lahore, the city in which Lenny lives, was the site of a particularly bloody confrontation reflective of the widespread atrocities, deportations and murders that rampaged across the sub-continent...
...government. Before the partition takes place, Lenny, despite being forced by polio to wear a leg brace, enjoys a happy childhood playing under the care of her nanny Shanta (Nandita Das). Shanta is a beautiful young Hindu woman who attracts suitors from all three religious backgrounds: Hindu, Sikh and Muslim. The two suitors that Shanta most favors with her attention are both Muslim: the charismatic yet somewhat roguish Dil Navaz or "Ice Candy Man" (Aamir Khan) and the kind, gentle Hasan (Rahul Khanna), Lenny's hero...
...these lamentable historical events unfold, Lenny's sheltered life begins to crumble despite her membership in the Parsi faith, which maintains her family neutral as the violence between Hindus and Muslims escalates. Shanta's suitors, originally friends, begin to divide along religious lines as news of genocidal bloodshed trickles in from the surrounding areas. As Lahore itself begins the tumultuous transition from a former Indian city to its current status as the capitol of Pakistan, a variety of the characters' dispositions also change. The transformation of "Ice Candy Man" is the most dramatic, as he goes from being the reasonable...
...film's intention for using a child's perspective manifests itself most clearly when Lenny innocently asks the "Ice Candy Man" if he saw his two sisters, who were on the train, in one of the sacks. In another scene, Lenny sees the Muslim refugees camped next door and asks her cousin who they are. Irritated that her cousin will not explain what he means by "fallen women" and "rape," she questions a young boy. The boy describes how he hid under dead bodies until the massacre of his village was complete and then went to search for his mother...