'Parzania' is the breathtaking untold story of an event that changed the country and world forever.
Cynical. Intelligent. Hilarious. Drunk. An American man by the name of Allan Webbings arrives in Ahmedabad city. For the longest time., Allan has been searching for answers, praying to find both internal peace and understanding of the horrors that religious differences can create. Allan has chosen India as his playground, and Gandhi as his subject. It's here that he meets Cyrus, the local projectionist who brings the young and troubled intellectual into his beautiful family. Cyrus is a Parsi, a follower of a rarely practiced religion that is both small in numbers and neutral to religious politics. He has a beautiful wife named Shernaz, a practical woman who after eleven years still can't resist his charisma and charm; two children ' Parzan an imaginative ten year old that has developed his own world, the world of Parzania, where the buildings are made of chocolate and the mountains of ice cream. Parzan, in his mind, has created the perfect world, a world that only his eight year old little sister Dilshad truly understands.
Through Cyrus's family, Allan finds his peace, right before the rest of the country loses its sanity. One morning, the beauty and peace that India is so famous for, is rocked beyond measure, as a bomb explodes in a train killing Hindus. Within 24 hours, thousands of Muslims are slaughtered, making that day one of the largest acts of communal violence the country has ever seen. And in the midst of the terror and violence, Parzan comes up missing.
While Cyrus fights for his own sanity and searches for his child, Allan battles to uncover the truth behind the riots.
'Parzania' is inspired by a true story.
CAST AND CREW: PLAYERS: Naseeruddin Shah, Corin Nemec, Sarika, Parzan Dastur, Pear Barsiwala, Raj Zutshi, Ramgopal Bajaj, Sheeba Chadda, Asif Basra and Pushpendra Saini.
Costumes: Shahnaz Vahnwaty, Production designers: Prosonjit Chanda and Tapan Roy, Sound design: Manoj Sikka, Editor: Aarif Sheikh, Executive Producers: Ken Greenblatt, Munna Rizvi, screenplay: David N. Donihue and Rahul Dholakia, Director of Photography: Robert Eras, Music: Zakir Hussain, Assisged by Taufique Qureshi, Produced by K.B.Sareen, Kamal Patel and Rahul Dholakia, Directed by Rahul Dholakia
