Kritika Kamra credit Anusha Rizvi for breaking typecast of Muslim presentation

It’s not daily in Hindi cinema that one sees a narrative a few Muslim household, devoid of the neighborhood’s stereotypical illustration. The Nice Shamsuddin Household is a welcome exception in that regard. Once we spoke with Kritika Kamra, she credited director Anusha Rizvi for displaying a Muslim household via a brand new lens.

“I agree that the movie breaks the typecast of Muslim illustration on display screen. I’ve been a part of initiatives the place there’s a sure lens of trying on the neighborhood. Though these tales are essential, you additionally want tales like The Nice Shamsuddin Household,” stated Kamra, emphasising that the JioHotstar film reveals that persons are extra comparable than totally different, no matter their backgrounds. “We’ve got rather more in widespread with one another than not, however in some way we are likely to deal with the variations. Tales like this inform you how comparable all of us are ultimately.” 

To Kamra, the dramedy — additionally starring Shreya Dhanwanthary and Juhi Babbar — felt so common that the characters’ non secular identification didn’t even register initially. “After I learn it the primary time, I didn’t even deal with the truth that it was a Muslim household.” When requested if telling such a narrative was brave in at present’s India, she replied, “I do know that it shouldn’t be.”