McKellen: Playing the Part
13-year-old Junaid visits ancestral home in Lucknow, India for family wedding. Experiencing Indian culture for first time, he goes through teen rites of passage: first love, heartbreak, rebellion agai…
McKellen: Playing the Part
13-year-old Junaid visits ancestral home in Lucknow, India for family wedding. Experiencing Indian culture for first time, he goes through teen rites of passage: first love, heartbreak, rebellion against patriarchal family values. 13-year-old Junaid, visits his ancestral Nawabi Haveli in Lucknow, over a family reunion for a wedding. Born and raised in UK, this is Junaid's first visit to India, along with his overbearing parents, which soon turns into a roller coaster ride for him. From having his first smoke, to falling madly in love and getting his heart broken, he goes through all the rites of passage a teenager goes through in the bittersweet, coming of age phase. But the underlying rot of patriarchy in his extended f...
McKellen: Playing the Part
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13-year-old Junaid visits ancestral home in Lucknow, India for family wedding. Experiencing Indian culture for first time, he goes through teen rites of passage: first love, heartbreak, rebellion against patriarchal family values. 13-year-old Junaid, visits his ancestral Nawabi Haveli in Lucknow, over a family reunion for a wedding.
Born and raised in UK, this is Junaid's first visit to India, along with his overbearing parents, which soon turns into a roller coaster ride for him. From having his first smoke, to falling madly in love and getting his heart broken, he goes through all the rites of passage a teenager goes through in the bittersweet, coming of age phase. But the underlying rot of patriarchy in his extended f....