A Teenager's Life Uprooted — And Threatened — In The Name Of Propriety: 'What Will People Say'
When director Iram Haq was a teenager in Norway, she was, in her own words, kidnapped by her parents and forced to spend more than a year of her life with relatives in Pakistan. That harrowing experience is now the foundation for Haq's second feature film What Will People Say, a blistering drama about the kind of culture clash that can traumatize a young woman for life.
The film stars the superb young actress Maria Mozhdah as Nisha, a 16-year-old girl living with her family) runs a convenience store and dreams of his children becoming doctors, while her mother Najma (Ekavali Khanna) remains at home, forever concerned with the family's reputation. Nisha's siblings, an older brother and younger sister, seem to rarely venture out on their own.
