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Netflix dropped Friday the trailer of his fictional dystopian series entitled Leila, directed by Deepa Mehta. With Huma Qureshi, Tamil actor Siddharth, Rahul Khanna, Biswas Seema, Akash Khurana, Sanjay Suri and Arif Zakaria, the trailer details a scary tale of a world where totalitarian rule and racial purity reign.
Placed in an imaginary world of Aryavarta, it begins in a digitally advanced world where a leader (Arif Zakaria) of a community is identifying and recording the "pure" of the unclean. In this world, a woman, played by Huma Qureshi, is accused of marrying outside her community. Several shots show her happy world – her boyfriend and, later, her husband and granddaughter. A few minutes later, his world is broken. Snakes land at the pool where she is with her family. She is kidnapped and her husband may be attacked. Separated from her family, she now finds herself in an ashram led by the leader and is forced to undergo a cleansing ceremony. It looks like a penance.
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Leila shows a numerically advanced dystopia in which the "pure" are separated from the "impure".
We see her soon in a vehicle (she may have escaped) and is looking for her daughter. To this end, she seeks the help of anyone she can handle, even from a street kid. Siddharth helps him in this process. As they seek, crowds dominate the streets. In one case, a police van with Huma, Siddharth and others is attacked by masked men. Later, we see a baby, possibly at the hospital, with a voice-over asking, "Will they take the Métis children somewhere?" Then, as the police try to control the rioters, Huma gets out of the police van, looking frantic. for his daughter. Huma and the rest can be seen running helter-skelter and the police can lead riots in slums. Seconds later, a voice-over informs that the government is taking children born to mixed parents even as Huma pours clues. We will see later that the character of Huma has been taken again. she is drugged while she shows up again to the chief. He repeats: "I told you, you will never get your daughter."
Rahul Khanna and Huma Qureshi in a photo of Leila.
Leila is inspired by the award-winning book of the author, Prayaag Akbar. It should be released on Netflix worldwide in 190 countries on June 14, 2019.
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First published:
May 17, 2019 10:45 AM IST
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