Under the weekly film screening, Bollywood movie, Naseem (The Morning Breeze), was screened here on Sunday at Abhirang Auditorium, Bharat Bhawan.

The movie screening is organised every week by Chhavi series of classical cinema.Naseem is a 1995 Hindi film directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza based on his own story. Notably, Naseem is considered an important socio-political film that marks a turning point in the Hindu-Muslim dynamics in India as it is based around the Babri Masjid demolition of 1992. It stands amidst great films of this genre, like KA Abbas’s Dharti Ke lal (1946) and MS Satyu’s Garam Hawa (1973).

It won the 1996 National Film Award for Best Screenplay for Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Ashok Mishra. The film marks the screen debut for Kay Kay Menon, Mayuri Kango and has the distinction of being the only screen role of Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi.

The delicate relationship between a 15-year-old girl and her grandfather is used to describe how the growing political tensions between Muslims and Hindus in 1992 led to the destruction of a medieval Muslim mosque and subsequently, violent rioting in the streets of Bombay.

Naseem charts the story of a young school going girl Naseem in the months leading up to the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992. She shares deep and loving bond with his ill grandfather who represents the era of communal harmony between Hindus and Muslims in India, as he fondly recalls the times he spent in pre-Independent Agra.

As communal tension erupts in the city of Bombay, Naseem gets increasingly bewildered by the changing dynamics at her school and in the neighborhood, while her grandfather watches helplessly at a city getting deeply divided over the Babri Masjid issue.A huge crowd of movie lovers was seen at Bharat Bhawan enjoying the show.