Editor's Note: Afghan Star premieres Thursday, March 18, on HBO. Video Collection: Youtube Title: Episode 37 - Special Concert. And this happiness even makes me feel like dancing.. Backstage, horrified, her fellow contestants' voices are thin when they ask, "Why is she dancing?" Afghan Star premieres at . Partnering with Afghani producers Saad Mohseni and Jahid Mohseni, Marking follows four young contestants through the third season of a wildly popular talent show (also called Afghan Star) modeled on American Idol, in which audience members vote for candidates via SMS (Short Message Service). We just had to turn up and drink lots of tea and hope the person would agree to filming. Even more explicitly, the producers used the contest to promote a national, inter-ethnic unity. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Starring: Setara Hussainzada, Lima Sahar, Hameed Sakhizada, Rafi Naabzada, Daoud Sediqi, In English, Dari, and Pashtun, with subtitles. Thank you for being part of this effort to promote respectful discussion. This is the freedom Afghanistan doesnt want. The latter describes taking singing lessons in secret, hiding her music books and computer from the Taliban. State Rep. "This was when the series became really big, and everything fell into place. When "Silencing the Song'' picks up a year later, Hussainzada has married one of her fans and is eight months pregnant, but her life is in disarray. "Music is banned by religion," she says. Man in the street: [after Setara adds dance moves to her song] She should be killed. Death threats, bomb scares, battling extremists in a conservative society like Afghanistan is a daily affair. After all, the smartest people on earth rarely act like idiots. Her story, my concern and in turn the audience's concern are what make the film so gripping; the film becomes a political thriller rather than just a quirky look at modern life in today's Afghanistan. Religious leaders soon step into the debate, putting pressure on the government to ban dancing and offer "only Islamic broadcasting.". An eerie silence ensues between sound bites. Setara hussainzada ended up being a bad man. Its a frustratingly sketchy portrait; in the half-hour allotted her, Marking doesnt give us the wider cultural setting of a country struggling toward freedom of expression, and she may wrongly assume that a US viewer has seen Afghan Star. (The original documentary airs before the new film tonight and is highly recommended.). There would be nothing.". Setara Hussainzada was a journalist. In Afghanistan, Marking worked with a very small crew: cameraman Phil Stebbing (who also did the sound), a driver, and a bodyguard (who was an Afghan wrestling champion). Ty Burr can be reached at tburr@globe.com. To the home audience, its the equivalent of Sinead OConnor ripping up a picture of the Pope. Setara Hussainzada was eliminated first, and while on air she danced without a hijab, receiving death threats as a result. Young women admired her. In a chilling scene, a young man looks solemnly at the camera as he declares Setara should be killed for her transgressions. Afghan Star is a talent quest which scours for hot new musical talent in the nation of Afghanistan. Il presentatore e direttore artistico Daoud Sediqi parte con il descrivere l'enorme seguito generato dal programma, spiegato in parte dal terribile periodo passato sotto il governo talebano, in cui non era permesso a nessuno ascoltare musica, ballare e tantomeno cantare. The show's. Head film critic for Mountain Xpress from December 2000 until his death in June 2016. Required fields are marked *. AFGHAN STAR (director: Havana Marking; cinematographer: Phil Stebbing; editor: Ash Jenkins; music: Simon Russell; cast: Setara Hussainzada, Rafi Nabaazda, Hameed Sahkizada, Lema Sehar, Daoud Sediqi; Runtime: 87; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Havana Marking; Zeitgeist Films; 2009-UK/Afghanistan-English, Dari and Pashtun with English subtitles) Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. "She brought shame to the Herati people," says a young man on the streets of her home town. Here are some of the ways that logic really matters in our work. "But an artist has to follow the people," he says. The third episode of Afghan Star Season 15 featured the Ghazal auditions. D: How did the sense of unpredictability (and danger) in the field affect your work as a director, and the development of the film? Afghan Star the show and the documentary moved on, but the director stuck around to witness the fallout on its most controversial performer. So his family were asleep for a few hours and when they woke up they saw him lying in the hallway. Our aim is to take peoples minds from weapons to music, says the shows host, Daoud Sediqi, a Ryan Seacrest with actual gravitas. When my friend and I walked into the house at around 1:30am the night before, we all woke up to find setara hussainzadas body slumped against the wall. Some traditionalists said Setara deserves to be killed. Afghan Star is a reality television show competition that searches for the most talented singers across Afghanistan. Luckily, because we were working with Tolo TV, the local TV station that made Afghan Star, we had access to all information from their news teams. // ]]]]>
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