The Path of Zarathustra

Inspirational, well this was the first word that came to my mind immediately after watching the movie. The movie totally inspired me in every aspect. It took me back to history of Parsi’s. The real essence of Parsi religion and what does it comprise of. The movie was well directed and put across the aspect of depleting Parsi community in the world. It spoke about religion, which is a topic of debate in the modern world, where the younger generation do not believe in the old myths of religion and wish to believe in what they can read and rationalize with. The movie well serves the purpose for these youngsters to learn and understand the true inception of Parsi’s.

The start of the movie spoke about how this young girl living with her grandfather is away from all the worldly things and is wanting to live the rest of the life with her grandfather in a faraway village, away from all the motion and commotion of the world. As the movie unfolds, we see that the girl now moves to her aunt’s house in the busiest metro of our country, Mumbai. She does so, as she makes a promise to her dying grandfather, to get back to the world and find out more about the Parsi community and the religion. She comes to Mumbai, with this one book given to her by her grandfather, who promised her that the book will unfold itself once she is with the people she is supposed to be with, her own people, her community, and her religion.

Well, so on goes the story of this girl, where she meets different people and tries to question them more and more about religion. As she goes around meeting these people, the story explains the audiences about the few and most important pillars of the religion and its inception. The story also puts light to a few ancient day laws set by the Parsi community which need to be changed and removed in order to survive in the modern lifestyle. One such example was the marriage of Parsi woman in another religion.

And so, many such aspects were bought to light with the help of this movie. We could enjoy a nice tour to the lives of many Parsi’s out there by understanding their daily environment, the real essence of the fire temple and many more. In order to conclude I would just say that the movie did complete justice in explaining the Parsi community and its inception. It was well directed and all characters in the movie just fitted in well. In all it was a movie with great inspirational message to the audiences. Look forward to more great work by such young directors to inspire the youth of the country.