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Nasir

2020 · 75 min

A quiet, observational day-in-the-life that slowly tightens with unspoken dread, finding warmth in small routines before communal hostility closes in.

Directed by
Arun Karthick
Genres
Drama
Starring
Valavane Koumarane, Sudha Ranganathan, Yasmin Rahman
Overview
Follows Nasir, a middle-aged street salesman, who belongs to the Islamic minority and who lives with his mother Fatima, his wife Taj and his cousin Iqbal in a densely populated ghetto. As his day unfolds we find him to be a nimble romantic, marshalling a love of love, song, children, friendship, and even God to rise into something resembling a life well lived. But the increasing communal bigotry has other plans.

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Directed by
Arun Karthick
Genres
Drama
Starring
Valavane Koumarane, Sudha Ranganathan, Yasmin Rahman
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • family
  • faith
  • survival
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Arun Karthick
Written by
Arun Karthick
Starring
Valavane Koumarane, Sudha Ranganathan, Yasmin Rahman, P. Sabari, Bakkiyam Sankar, Rajesh, Jenson Dhivakar, Niveditha
Cinematography
Saumyananda Sahi
Runtime
75 min
Country
India, Netherlands, Singapore
Languages
Tamil

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