09/11/2023
QueerGuru Culture Website's Andrew Hebden gives a ringing endorsement this week to the movie "The Queen of My Dreams" which is the first Bollywood style movie written by and directed by Fawzia Mirza. Andrew says "Azra (Amrit Kaur) is the rebellious daughter brought up in the West, in a relationship with another woman, that she keeps secret from her disapprovingly devout Muslim mother Mariam (Nimra Bucha). However, it turns out Mariam also originally kept parts of her relationship with Azra’s father Hassan (Hamza Haq) secret from her mother. In flashbacks, we see that Mariam was herself a rebel once. She used to dance and smoke and wear a bikini in the 1960s before Pakistan became a more conservative Islamic country. Queen of My Dreams has an unreal, super vivid hue but the accuracy of its emotional content and its thoughtful but funny capture of the complex nature of expectations, disappointment, guilt, and grief mean that its human insights are entertainingly luminous".
