The Guru’s preachings will stay etched on one’s memory, thanks to the imagery created via glowing silhouettes and ‘faceless’ side profiles. Despite censorship issues and the limited framework in which they had to work on the biopic, the output is a well-packaged film with impressive performances. The cast and crew deserve a pat on the back for pulling off a two-and-a-half-hour film depicting Guru Nanak through computer graphics. Harinder Sikka’s ‘Nanak Shah Fakir’, a film based on Guru Nanak’s life and teachings, which has been courting controversy ever since its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival last year, finally released on Friday in Haryana and other states, even as its screening has been suspended for two months in Punjab as well as Chandigarh.Ī moving picture for the diehard faithful as well as others, it has nothing objectionable or against Sikhism. Before one knows it, there are too many rules, too many perspectives on religion to let the visual medium depict history with a creative licence.
In a country awash with bans and closed mindsets, making a religious film is a challenge in itself.
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