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Critic Review
Mee Raqsam (2020)Maryam, a Muslim girl of 15, finds solace, almost closure in Bharatnatyam after her mother's sudden demise. She finds encouragement from her father, a tailor of limited financial means and a limitless heart. But when ek Mohammedan ladki stoops down to perform the customary pranam before starting her Bharatnatyam performance, it ruffles feathers, making staunch flagbearers of 'kaum' and 'sabhyata' on both ends of the spectrum shift in their chairs. The Hindu girl reviewing this film grew up learning Kathak of Lucknow Gharana and never had her hands - or feet - tied up as she did the tatkaar. It is clear very early on in Mee Raqsam (I Dance) that this isn't most of our story. But that doesn't mean it doesn't resonate with you..
Mee Raqsam is an ode to fathers who guide their children to the path where dreams come true.
Paths where you are free to dance like Maryam and free to call a bigot a bigot as fearlessly as Baba Azmi..
It’s tough to make an issue-based film without being pedantic, or prescriptive. More nuance and delicacy in showing up both flaws and merits of the characters and their struggles would have made this important film, whose heart is firmly in the right pl.
