Mee Raqsam will start streaming on ZEE5 on August 21. It is about a Muslim kid learning Bharatanatyam and the entire community going hammer and tongs at her father for encouraging her. This story is set against the period when Shabana Azmi’s father Kaifi Azmi lived. It is a beautiful trailer showing the resolute Danish Husain standing up for his daughter while his relative questions him if he is hell bent on making her a courtesan. He is also warned against doing this by the leader of his community (Naseeruddin Shah). He faces criticism from his neighbours and his family members. People from his community label his act as anti-religious. There is another Muslim man who goes against his brethren and says that the beauty and sanctity of Islam doesn’t reduce just because a girl learns an art form. This trailer of Baba Azmi directorial Mee Raqsam released on Friday and is presented by Shabana Azmi. It is a tribute to her late father, renowned poet Kaifi Azmi.
Mee Raqsam marks the directorial debut of Baba Azmi. It has been shot in Mijwan, the birthplace of his late father Kaifi Azmi, near Azamgarh and its surrounding areas. “Many years ago, my father Kaifi Azmi had asked me, ‘Baba is it possible for you to shoot a film in Mijwan?’ My father was born in Mijwan, a village in eastern UP. We both smiled at each other, because we both knew what a formidable task that would be. A village with no roads, no amenities, no infrastructure. But his question stuck with me. Now, many years later I was able to do that,” Baba Azmi tells the media.
