After
portraying a young mother in the recently released Tu Hai Mera Sunday, Rasika
Dugal will play Ishrat, a Kashmiri mother, in the upcoming drama, Hamid
produced by SaReGaMa. The film talks of Kashmir’s conflict zones through an
emotional mother-son journey and an eight-year-old boy’s quest to find his
father. Situation in Kashmir is worsening day by day. The entire humanity is
put to shame with the condition of Kashmiri’s especially for young kids and
women. It was a daunting task for Rasika to play a character of a mother whose
husband is lost and her young son is on quest to find her father.
Though
we have seen Rasika playing the similar character in her award-winning short
film The School Bag, here Hamid takes the audience to a different level of performance
by Rasika and child artist Talha Reshi. To prepare her role Rasika began her
homework by reading up and watching documentaries on the life of Kashmir’s
‘Lady of Iron’, Parveena Ahangar, the founder of Association of Parents of
Disappeared Persons (APDP), who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
for her pacifism and human rights activism. The actress was also very
influenced by Iffat Fatima’s 26-minute documentary, Where Have You Hidden My
New Moon Crescent, which tells the story of Mughal Masi, who died waiting 20
years for her son to return. Rasika went on researching on internet by going
through various petitions, news articles published on the plight of Kashmiri
women to locate their husbands and children in the conflict zone.
When
asked Rasika about her research she said, “It's a part of my job as an actor to
do research work on a part I am going to play. That is the most basic thing
that I can do. The more important thing is to somehow find a connect with
people and situations which are seemingly beyond your own realm of experience.
I always find it useful to accept to
myself honestly that I will always be an outsider to another person's
experience but , at the same time, I am craving to be let in. That leaves me
both vulnerable and curious. But at the end of the day, I can only do my work
to the best of my knowledge and hope that I have been sensitive to the people
whose story we are attempting to tell especially when it's about people who
have lived in conflict for so long”
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