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Through depictions of laws being broken and the truth being revealed, director Dholakia, conveys the heartache and fear experienced by the massive mob attacking against the Muslim families in Gujarat. In this film the Hindus attacked the Muslim. This wasn’t just for no reason though. The Hindus believed that the Muslim had something to do with the train fire that killed 59 Hindus. There is no solution on how the train caught on fire, but the Muslims were initially blamed for the deaths. The Hindus wanted revenge and they got it. They killed 1,100 Muslims and many women were raped. The director shows all of these horrific events in the movie Parzania. The first question is, is why were so many killed? Why wasn’t something done about the violence, the anger and the killing that was going on? What did the police officers do? They did nothing. While the mob of Hindus were going around burning the Muslims houses down and killing them the police informed the people who needed help that they had no orders to help them. Even the police that were friends with the Muslims said they couldn’t help them because they …show more content…

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