Officially the Gujarat government was not
a part of the 2002 carnage. Modi maintained
that that the inhuman massacre of over 2000
innocents, gang rapes of over 300 Muslim women
and girls were all because of Newton's third
law . Over 17 fact finding reports showed clear
and open participation and connivance of the
state machinery during the carnage.
What is happening to Parzania clearly shows
that the whole system is rotten and deceit is
the way of governance. Even when the film is
officially not banned, it cannot be screened
as goons belonging to allied government forces,
'unofficially' threaten anyone who dares to
talk about screening the film. Modi knows it
too well that Parzania can be his unmaking.
The brutalities and facts of 2002 carnage which
were cleverly hidden from the ordinary Gujarati
people by a well-oiled fascist propaganda machinery,
will become transparent. Parzania has the capability
of shaking Gujarat's conscience and asmita.
And that is what Mr. Modi is afraid of. So he
doesn't ban the film himself, he sends his goons
to do that. A recent sms/ e-mail contest organised
by Anhad got an overwhelming response with 99.5%
respondents demanding screening of Parzania.
We are pasting below the prize winning entries.
The winners will go to Bombay in the third week
of March, see the film and meet the director
and the cast of the film. Prize Winners and
Winning entries: Raksha Bharadia ( Ahmedabad),
Kishan P Chavada, Altaf Ali Makrani (Rajkot),
Jaishree Sharma ( Vadodara), Rishi Gautam( Ahmedabad),
Govind Desai( Rajkot), Sanita (Ahmedabad), Nayan
Patel ( Halol), Stuti Amin ( Ahmedabad), Sachin
( Khetbrahma), Sonal Pradhan (Baroda)
1. Yes. I definitely think that Parzania should
be released here in Gujarat. We are a democratic
country and the right of speech and expression
is every Indian's birthright. If we keep quiet
o day tomorrow we may have to pay a still heavier
price for our passivity or indifference. We
must speak out today as much for ourselves as
fro the future generation. (Raksha Bharadia)
2. Pazania should be screened in Gujarat because
Gujarat is a part of India. In fact Gujarat
is a State of India. We have democracy in India.
If we claim to be the biggest democratic country
in the world then by stopping a movie screening
, we are showing that India is a democratic
country on paper. Way the unauthorised people
stopped the screen of Fanah in Gujarat last
year was very sad. By the way who has given
the right to these unauthorised people to decide
that which movie will be screened or not?
In India we have the right to express our thoughts.
By stopping the Parzania to be screen by unauthorised
people they are depriving the right of expression.
India has its own sensor board which decides
which movie will be screened and which will
not. Parzania is just a movie which is based
on reality. (Kishan P Chavada)
3. Parzania should be released in Gujarat immediately.
Because we do not want to watch out this film
from the eyes of vote hungered politician but
from the eyes of a mother who has lost the only
star of her eyes in riots. Not by the eyes of
contractor of any religion but by the eyes of
a tired old man who has come home after the
hard labor of a full day and crying while gazing
at the photo of his young son lost in riots.
And we want to feel the mental agony of those
who gaze at the door whole night always waiting
for their loving relatives who never returned
after riots.
We wants to feel all these with a view that
no mother losses the light of her eyes again.
No other old people loose their support of old
age again. And no women losses her husband in
youth. Really it is coward ness to run away
from the facts of our history with shying and
it is morality to remember our guiltiness of
history and try to reform them with accepting
them. (Altaf Ali Makrani)
4. The movie parzania ought to be screened .We
live in an age where the power of official politics
has made a mockery of our rights in a democratic
country like India. Every individual should
have the right to express his or her opinions
freely without any fear.As a result of censoring
films like Parzania, the youth would never come
to know the truth and aftermath of such massacres.
Children are the symbols of a bright tomorrow.
The movie Parzania is based on a missing child
whose dissapearance has cast his parents into
a cloud of grief. To shove a movie under the
carpet for the fear of a backlash is cowardly.
Parzania should be screened in Gujarat. In turbulent
times like ours we need to show that our sympathy
is not dead. (Jayshree Sharma)
5. Let parzania be screened because the people
should also get aware of truth. Are the people
of the Gujarat are so close minded that they
are not able to face the reality. Obviously
PARZANIA should be screened because it has the
truth ,the feeling of reality, It is showing
the feeling of a family. So, not only me my
whole family is supporting the screening of
PARZANIA. (Rishi Gautam)
6. We this film [should be shown] in Gujarat
because:
1. The film is showing a bitter truth which
needs to be shown
2. We need to break the silence on this issue
by provoking debate
3. We shouldn't bow down against inhuman forces,
rather put forward our non-violent efforts.
(Govind Desai)
7. All I know is that I want to see the film.
I think the rest of Gujarat who has seen one
side of violence should watch it to experience
the other side. (Sanita)
8. Ban on Parzania: I see it as an affront of
extremists to introduce modern Parda system,
where they decide what people see and what not.
(Nayan Patel)
9. Parzania could have been our story. Have
sympathy towards the victims. Let it be screened.
Stuti Amin
10. Gujarat Ke Kafi Log ek aisi situation se
guzar rahe hain jisme unhe apna anewala bhavishya
banana ki hod main kuch log mar bhi jaye to
unhe lagta hai ki koi harj nahi. Par dusra pehlu
bhavishya ka yeh bhi hai ki Gujarat me unka
hal; bhi unke jaisa ho jayega , jinki aaj unhe
fikr nahi. Dabe huyee logon ki yaad ko zinda
rakhne ke liye aisi film ka aana behad zaroori
hai. Hum tayyar hai is film ko apne kaam or
apne district main ghar ghar pahunchane ke liye.
Yeh hamari zimmedari hai aur hum ise nibhayenge.
(Sachin)
11. Any nation gets the films it deserves. Parzania
could have shaken the conscience of millions
of Gujaratis. And may have helped the poor family.
But it seems that our morality is dead and buried.
Concerned and Troubled. (Sonal Pradhan)
Released by Shabnam Hashmi
February 14, 2007
