Results of the Let Parzania be Screened SMS contest
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
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