“Little Zizou”, a comedy about faith and hope, pain and loss, is framed around a gentle yet powerful parable of tolerance.Set in contemporary Bombay, for a global audience, this much-awaited title has been written and directed by ace writer Sooni Taraporevala (who has written Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, Such A Long Journey, and most recently The Namesake) The internationally celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair (of Salaam Bombay! Kama Sutra, The Namesake and Monsoon Wedding fame) is associated with the project in a creative capacity.The film starts with 11-year old Xerxes (Jahan Bativala), who loves football and dreams of meeting his icon Zinedine Zidane someday.He’s nicknamed fondly after his idol, Zizou.Motherless and lonely, he spends most of his time being treated to fish curry and other stuff by his kindly neighbours, The Presswalas (Boman Irani and Zenobia Shroff) — much to the chagrin of their younger daughter who sulks at the attention given to Zizou by her mother.Boman Presswala regularly pokes fun of Khodaiji through his newspaper, which forms the crux of the story in the later reels.

Zizou’s own family is a dysfunctional one.His father, Cyrus II Khodaiji (Sohrab Ardeshir) is an archetype, a pathetic remnant of the Raj– the kind who speaks high-flown English and insists on crisp toast and bacon for breakfast.That is when he’s not driving his uptight Girl Friday (Shenaz Patel) crazy, expecting new levels of perfection from her every day.But all this could be excused as perverse eccentricity, except that Khodaiji is obsessed with a certain ‘cause’ to keep his community pure and not allow “riff raff”, as he puts it, to pollute them.When an articulate foreign journalist points out at Parsis’ dwindling numbers, Khodaiji’s retort is, “Quality matters madam, not quantity”

Meanwhile, Zizou’s elder brother, Artaxerxes (Imaad Shah) is a writer-artiste –who visualises his vicinity through caricatures (this is a nice touch to the theme) — keeps himself busy with a bunch of wacky friends, trying to convert a crashed cockpit into a flight-of-fantasy machine, when he’s not getting disappointed in love.

Video Source: PDVD
Host: Zshare
Chapters: 5

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5