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Article: Indian filmmaker unveils her own minuscule Parsi Minority.
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- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Men in PLO T-shirts march through noisy, chaotic streets; their leader, all in white, stands before the wrought iron gate of a Zoroastrian fire temple urging followers to pledge purity and denounce outsiders.
Welcome to the fictitious world of the Parsi Liberation Organization led by a buffoon character in a zany movie that looks at India's Parsis -- both their excesses and endearments -- as a minuscule minority of some 70,000 in a country of more than one billion people.
Veteran screenwriter-turned-director Sooni Taraporevala has put the spotlight on the Parsis, an ethnic-religious group whose name derives from their Persian origins, in a film and in a ...