TIFF 2023: Amrit Kaur On The Responsibility Of Telling Fawzia Mirza’s Story In ‘The Queen Of My Dreams’: ‘I Was Bawling’
etcanada.comET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante caught up with Amrit Kaur on the TIFF red carpet, where she was on hand for the world premiere of her new film “The Queen of My Dreams”.
Kaur, best known for playing Bela in “The Sex Lives of College Girls” stars in the directorial debut of Fawzia Mirza, an expansion of her 2012 short film of the same name.
In Mirza’s semi-autobiographical film, Kaur she plays queer Muslim grad student Azra, who returns to her ancestral home in Pakistan after the death of her father.
While she clashes with her traditional mother, Mariam (Nimra Bucha), who insists she play the role of perfect grieving daughter, flashbacks to Mariam’s own life in Karachi 30 years earlier demonstrate the connections that unite mother and daughter — particularly in their shared adoration of Bollywood star Sharmila Tagore.
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