Naseeruddin Shah plays Mumbai blast mastermind in new movie
Subhash K. Jha: Guess who is playing the mastermind of the terror bombings that rocked Mumbai’s suburban trains on July 11, 2006, in director Neeraj Pandey’s take on the incident? The hugely talented Naseeruddin Shah.
Pandey, a newcomer to the industry, has almost completed his film titled “Wednesday”.
The movie features Anupam Kher as a policeman investigating the bombings.
The makers of “Wednesday” plan to release the movie on Independence Day, Aug 15.
For Naseeruddin, the character is a challenge. It is not something he has done before. “I took on this role because I’ve never played anything like this before,” says Naseer, who will soon fly to London to shoot for Jagmohan Mundhra’s “Shoot On Sight”.
In “Shoot On Sight”, Naseeruddin plays a Muslim policeman, whose 30 years of loyal service to the British police force is questioned after the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings in London’s underground railway.
The two back-to-back reality movies give the actor a chance to explore terrorism from both ends. And it also proves the industry’s growing interest in exploring the anatomy of global terror.
Earlier, Anurag Kashyap set his movie “Black Friday” on the 1992 Mumbai serial blasts.
— IANS
Just a few questions:
Why are Muslims being blamed again without any concrete evidence?
Why only the police officers that were investigating Hindu terrorism in India for past few weeks were one of the first ones to be killed?
Why Maharashtra was so open for alleged , “muslim terrorists”, when BJP has such a strong hold on the city of Mumbai that politicians like Raj Thackeray can butcher a birthday cake that had the word “Bhaiyya” (Bhaiyya is a word for Biharis in India) written on it publicly?
Why authorities or media are not looking into other possibilities?
Why are the terrorists keeping hostages and not identify themselves or start negotiations?
Why are the terrorists not killing themselves just as supposed Islamic terrorists have done in the past?
Why are Indian journalists talking about an “encounter” (term for killing suspects in police shoot out) instead of actually an attempt to “arrest” the perpetrators and investigate who they really are and what are their intentions?
For those who target Muslims without answering all the above mentioned questions kindly learn to speculate, investigate, analyze and than come to a conclusion.