The thematic thread running through the films gives us a useful connector. And there’s a certain quality to the production in almost all the films.
Shor Se Shuruaat has one theme which binds them: sound and silence. It is about being able to hear and choosing to mute the noise. About not being able to sleep and finding solace in CDs which have become extinct in an authoritarian future; a man condemned to death whose last wish is to hear, just hear; about a fearless poet who chooses to break his silence and suffer the consequences, about whimsical dreamscapes, about a distressed young woman finding refuge in music.
