Consent should be a prerequisite for marriage: Director Ashraf Hamza

Entertainment By Arjun Ramachandran 04/05/2023 Read the article

Director Ashraf Hamza’s latest Malayalam movie, Sulaikha Manzil, gives an insight into the marriages in Ponnani, a small town in the Malappuram district of Kerala.

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The idea struck me when actor Chemban Vinod told me that he was eager to know about Muslim weddings and wanted to do a film on the same. The director recalled.

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I realised that Muslim weddings have never been portrayed realistically in Malayalam cinema. The events depicted in the flick are all inspired by real-life incidents.

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The Muslim characters in my projects mostly hail from Ponnani and other areas of the Malappuram district and are inspired by real life.

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After Thamaasha (Joke, 2019) and Bheemante Vazhi (Bheeman’s Path, 2021), I wanted to do a movie based on Ponnani and Lukman was my first choice.

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I saw Anarkali Marikar in a song on Instagram and was impressed with her performance. I invited her to the auditions and she was selected, he said.

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The movie got a good response, especially in Malappuram and Kozhikode districts. We are organising special shows and night shows.

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In response to the treatment of the movie the director said, Life is a balancing act and I try to capture these small moments in my films.

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