Director Hansal Mehta’s Faraaz takes a real-life incident that happened in Bangladesh and uses it to make a political statement about India.
We discuss the film’s reliance on the “good Muslim trope”, and the odd choice to limit the internal debate to religion.
We also talk about the film’s tonal irregularities, its archetypal characters, and wonder who the target audience for something like this is.
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