The film looks at where Setara is now and the impact that her controversial performance has had on her life and her country, including ever-present threats to her safety. Our aim is to take peoples minds from weapons to music, says the shows host, Daoud Sediqi, a Ryan Seacrest with actual gravitas. Following more than three decades of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to Afghanistan. Mostly Islamist in outlook, the Mujahideen placed restrictions on music and outlawed women singers. The most cocksure of the contestants, he is filmed going to the shrine of Hazrat Ali in his home city of Mazar-e-Sharif, where an imam prays for his victory. The film is based, as they say, on a true story, and the real-life Afghan woman who appeared on this television show, Setara Hussainzada, confronted tremendous opposition from religious and. The show premiered in September 2005 on Tolo TV, four years after the fall of Taliban. Episode 01 - Kabul Auditions. The comments section is here to provide a platform for civil dialogue on the issues we face together as a local community. I went on my own and filmed for a month. He wasn't Taliban; in fact, he was part of the government, so you never knew what was about to happen. Setara said she is open-minded and wants other Afghans to be as well. HM: Setara became the main character when she danced on stage. The show's. Lema Sahar, 25, is a Pashtun singer from Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold. United Kingdom's official submission to 82nd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2010. The fact that two made the final 10 suggests a little positive discrimination was employed (judges whittle the numbers down to 10; text-messaging then decides the winner). For one thing, the patriarchal culture makes it unlikely that women will participate, and when a couple do, one of them, Setara Hussainzada, gets in trouble for dancing on-stage and accidentally letting her headscarf slip; not only is she removed from the show, but she has to go into hiding for her safety. [CDATA[ I think that this is the most important fact about Setara Hussainzada, because it shows us how much the government thought about him when they killed him. Rating: Unrated. Habib Amiri, Setara Hussainzada, Rafi Naabzada, Lima Sahar, Hameed Sakhizada, Massoud Sanjer. Starring: Setara Hussainzada, Lima Sahar, Hameed Sakhizada, Rafi Naabzada, Daoud Sediqi. She should be killed, says one passerby filmed by Marking. While one-third of Afghanistan watches, Rafi Naabzada wins the final round, becoming the Afghan Star. Silencing the Song offers a portrait of a natural star denied a stage, a cheery diva ground down by her cultures insistence that theres no place for her. It's also available to stream, download and buy on demand at Apple TV. Even the audience members must go through multiple security checks. This Gecko Trapped In Amber Is 54 Million Years Old, Still Looks Alive, Shubman Gill Joins Elite List As He Becomes Latest Member Of ODI 200 Club, Tejasvi Surya, IndiGo Still Silent On If It Was The MP Who Opened The Flight's Emergency Door, Wasim Akram Is A Cricket Legend And Now His Son Is On His Way To Becoming A Professional MMA Fighter, 9 Craziest Wildest Sexual Fantasies Ideas List with Examples (Girls & Boys), Blood For The First Night: Amazon Is Selling Product To Fake Virginity & People Can't Digest It, Apart From Aman Gupta's BoAt, All Shark Tank India Judges Are Apparently Drowning In Losses, Not Jeff Bezos Or Elon Musk, These 11 People Are The Richest People In Human History, The Badshah Of Bollywood Is Back! The documentary follows these two women and two men. An eerie silence ensues between sound bites. Rafi (a 19-year-old idol-in-the-making from Mazar e Sharif), Hameed (a classically trained musician from the persecuted Hazara ethnic group), Lima (a 25-year-old woman from conservative Kandahar) and Setara (a 21-year-old woman from Herat): Each subject has a unique story that brings broader issues into focus. Released June 26th, 2009, 'Afghan Star' stars Habib Amiri, Setara Hussainzada, Rafi Naabzada, Lima Sahar The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 27 min, and received a user score of 66. 2023 International Documentary Association. How much freedom is too much? Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. It is the show that's rocking Afghanistan. They'll see how much can really ride on a song. And since one of the two female contestantsSetara Hussainzadais a rule breaker who goes beyond the dictates of Islamic religion (she shows her hair and . Copyright 2011 Globe Newspaper Company. As we all know, setara hussainzada was a genius at his job, but he was a complete idiot when it came to alarms and time-loops. After Daoud Sediqi decided to air the footage of the show, there was an outrage in the conservative muslim community. When I returned in 2004 for another concert, a Pashtun singer had just become the first woman, post-Taliban, to sing on Afghan TV. //-->. Out in the streets, condemnation of Setara is not limited to the "old guard." D: While the film is observational and maintains its distance, there is an obvious empathy that comes through in the portrayal of Setara. She hires a bodyguard and starts packing a piece but still is too scared to go shopping in an open marketplace. Setara doesnt really want to be the Courtney Love of Afghanistan. A lady should not be liberal like Setara, said a man in the documentary. [CDATA[// >