RUUPOSH

About the film

Ruuposh is an idiosyncratic documentary that features Ruksana Begum- her late father Mehboob Khan and her son- Mohd Fehmeed, who belong to a Muslim minority family in India, 2021. The documentary follows a personal narrative of how Mehboob Khan stayed back in India at the time of partition while his entire extended family moved to Pakistan. Since then, there had been on and off contact with the relatives in Pakistan which completely ceased off a few decades ago. And while the younger generation wants to establish contact with the parted relatives- do the political circumstances of the two countries allow the possibility and sustenance of any friendly relationship?

About the director(s)

Mohd Fehmeed is a film school graduate from AJK - MCRC Jamia Millia Islamia, theatre worker and New Media Enthusiast capturing stories from rural India about dreams, aspirations and hurdles. He wants to create awareness and impact through his films about issues of poverty, gender inequality, minority rights and loss of culture & heritage. He has a great interest in exploring emerging storytelling techniques like Virtual reality, interactive filmmaking and transmedia storytelling and hopes to raise important issues through it.

Zeeshan Amir Khan is a theatre practitioner and storyteller by heart. He has completed his masters from AJK-MCRC Jamia Millia Islamia in Mass Communications and now working as a freelance filmmaker and multimedia producer for some of the leading digital media companies. His interest lies in making cinema that corresponds to real stories and the most humane issues around identity, gender and politics.