Shabana Azmi played a lesbian bahu in Deepa Mehta’s Fire (1996). Now 20 years later, she returns in yet another lesbian drama. This time, Shabana doesn’t play the lesbian, though.
In Pakistani writer-director-actress Fawzia Mirza’s American production entitled Signature Move, Shabana plays mother to a lesbian daughter Fawzia.
Fawzia introduces herself as “lesbian, Muslim, Pakistani, actor, activist, writer, producer, lawyer and creature of passion." The film, which seems autobiographical, casts Shabana as a mother who watches television soaps all day long and seems oblivious to the fact that her daughter is a lesbian and in a relationship with Mexican girl, who is a wrestler.
Last week, Shabana left for Chicago for the shoot.
