'He should have a beard by now'

Leena Misra / TNN / Feb 28, 2008, 00:50 IST

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TOI joins the search for the missing Parzania boy.

TOI joins the search for the missing Parzania boy.
TOI joins the search for the missing Parzania boy.
TOI joins the search for the missing Parzania boy.
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Azhar was 13 when he went missing

AHMEDABAD: "He must have grown, should have a beard by now," says Rupa Mody, staring at the door as if her Azzu, now 19 years old, would just walk in.
Azhar was 13 years old when he went missing from Gulbarg Society in Meghaninagar area of Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002.
The Modys were the only Parsi family living in this Muslim enclave where 39 people were butchered.
But hope lives on that Azhar, on whose life the film Parzania

was based, is alive. Father Dara prays regularly at the Agiyari for his son's return. Sister Binaifer is taking the class XII examinations this year. They have now moved into a new flat.
Since Parzania was released, they have got several calls from people who claim to have spotted Azhar �� from as far as Haryana and Delhi. The film had a poster of the boy, listing the Modys' phone number, at the end.
Rupa was holding Azzu's hand till she began to asphyxiate because of the smoke and passed out. Binaifer recalls someone telling the rioters: "Spare this boy, he is a Gujarati."
"I am sure he is somewhere," says Rupa. She recalls how Azhar loved trains and ran out to see them passing by the track outside Gulbarg. "He could have hopped on to one," she believes.

About the Author

Leena Misra

Leena Misra is senior assistant editor at The Times of India, Ahmedabad. She has written on politics, crime, communal riots of 2002, people, city issues and a lot more. Loves all kinds of music, reading non-fiction and travelling.

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