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Little Zizou

Sooni Taraporevala in Person with Iyanah Bativala
Director in Person
Screening on Film
Free Admission
Directed by Sooni Taraporevala.
With Boman Irani, Imaad Shah, Jahan and Iyanah Bativala, Sohrab Ardeshir, Zenobia Shroff.
India, 2008, 35mm, color, 101 min.

Little Zizou is the directorial debut of screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, who wrote Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay! Mississippi Masala and The Namesake. This contemporary comedy is set amongst the unique and fascinating world of Bombay's Parsi community, followers of the prophet Zarathustra and tells the story of two very unusual families in conflict - one headed by a religious bigot, the other by a reforming journalist. 

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      Little Zizou introduction and post-screening discussion with Alfred Guzetti, Sooni Taraporevala and Iyanah Bativala.

      Little Zizou screens in tandem with Taraporevala's photography exhibition Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India, on view October 25 through December 20 in the Sert Gallery at the Carpenter Center. 

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