9/11: Could Firoze be one of them?

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">NEW DELHI: It''s September 11, 2003. <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">9/11 The Last Fall</span>, a feature film by Abhishek Sharma, premiers at Delhi''s Film Division auditorium. <br /><br />The small theatre cannot accommodate the crowds that have come to watch the 51-minute fictional drama made in digital video format.A repeat has to be organised.<br /><br />The same time, two years back. September 11, 2001. Five friends, now in their early 30s, get together to celebrate the immigration call one of them has received from the US. Since college, each has gone his/her own way, but the old ties remain.<br /><br />As Suhasini a newspaper journalist, her husband Abhijit a theatre-wallah, Razia a passionate architect, Vilom a businessman from Old Delhi and Vasu the IT professional and his very young, very-US crazy girlfriend banter on about old times and new flames, the television screen shows a plane crashing into one of the World Trade Center towers. <br /><br />As the tragedy unfolds on television, six adults and two children play out their own changing perceptions and equations, relationships and dreams. Desultory comments like "Oh, come on, so many people die in India every day," to "it was such a lovely building" soon turn into an intense discussion. <br /><br />A new name is introduced. Firoze, Abhijit''s former room-mate is somewhere in the US. As they put together whatever little they know of his life, apprehensions about his death in the tragedy turns into a chilling fear. Could Firoze be one of terrorists involved in the attack? <br /><br />The Last Fall cost its producers Fourth Wall Productions and Rohit Chaudhury about Rs 1.75 lakhs and took two months to complete. "Friends from the National School of Drama (NSD) acted in the film and took almost no money," said Abhishek Sharma, also an NSD graduate. <br /><br />The music was composed by Raam, an NRI mechanical engineer based in the US for no charge. There are plans to screen the film at forthcoming national and international festivals in Mumbai and Rome. "We are also thinking of a television release after the festivals," said Sharma.</div> </div>