{"id":31751,"date":"2018-05-22T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=31751"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:03:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T10:03:48","slug":"indian-film-nakkash-showcased-at-cannes-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/indian-film-nakkash-showcased-at-cannes-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian film \u2018Nakkash\u2019 showcased at Cannes festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemHeader\">Indian film \u2018Nakkash\u2019, focussed on communal harmony, made it to the recent 71st Cannes film festival which concluded on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>The film was chosen by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) to represent the spirit of secularism in the country, a release issued by the movie\u2019s director, Zaigham Imam said. Besides \u2018Nakkash\u2019, the Cannes festival, which commenced on May 8, saw Indian films like Nandita Das-directed and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer \u2018Manto\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Nakkash, which stars Inaam-ul-haq and Sharib Hashmi \u2014 the actors of National Award winning film \u2018Filmistan\u2019, is the story of a Muslim craftsman who uses his craft to do engravings in Hindu temples but gets boycotted by his community and faces hardship along with his son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI &amp; B Ministry especially chose \u2018Nakkash\u2019 for representing the spirit of communal harmony. The film represents a new and different perspective about India in the backdrop of the holy city Varanasi,\u201d Imam said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This was the third installment of Zaigham Imam\u2019s trilogy of stories revolving around Varanasi. His first film \u2018Dozakh: In Search Of Heaven\u2019, released in 2015, was based on his novel with the same name. The second film \u2018Alif\u2019 was released it in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was born in a Muslim family near Banaras. Since childhood I had a peculiar relation with mosques and temples. That bond grew as I started my journey as a journalist and became a successful one. That fascination became the fuel to my stories,\u201d he said in the release. \u201cNakkash (The Craftsman) is all about humanity and spreading your wings breaking all religious boundaries,\u201d Imam said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian film \u2018Nakkash\u2019, focussed on communal harmony, made it to the recent 71st Cannes film festival which concluded on Saturday. The film was chosen by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) to represent the spirit of secularism in the country, a release issued by the movie\u2019s director, Zaigham Imam said. Besides \u2018Nakkash\u2019, the Cannes [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31754,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751\/revisions\/31754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}