Naseem

The film is set between June and December 1992, the days preceding the infamous demolition of the structure of at in the province of by groups. The relationship between Naseem, a 15-year-old schoolgirl belonging to a middle class based family and her ailing grandfather takes the story forward as the family watches with increasing horror on their TV the news of the growing tension between Muslims and Hindus. The grandfather keeps regaling her with stories of life marked by communal harmony in the pre-independence city of . As communal tension erupts in the city of Bombay, Naseem notices changing dynamics at her school and in the neighborhood, while her grandfather watches helplessly at a city getting deeply divided on communal lines. The old man dies on 6 December coinciding with the news of the destruction of the mosque. Reviewing the film at the Indian Panorama section of the , S. R. Ashok Kumar of wrote that “Mayoori Kango as Naseem has exceled in acting in quite a number of scenes. The director Saeed Akthar Mirza has done his home work properly. The film is the pick among the Panorama selections”. The film won and for . This article about a Hindi film of the 1990s is a . You can help Wikipedia by .