Ms Marvel director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on creating Partition scene: ‘Each one of us felt the pain…’

Sharmeen, who’s  identified for documentaries reminiscent of Saving Face, A Girl within the River: The Price of Forgiveness,  mentioned that the whole crew felt like they’d been transported again to 1947 whereas engaged on that scene from the present.

The filmmaker instructed Hindustan Times, “When we were standing on the platform there were close to a thousand extras on set in the scene where we’d gone back into 1947. When Kamala was walking on the platform, listening to these snatches of conversations, there was a moment when all of us on set couldn’t believe that we were able to recreate Partition and tell this story to this generation. For that time we were filming her walking through that platform, we really were transported into 1947. Each one of us felt the pain of what those families were going through and it felt like we were bearing witness to history.”

So far, Ms Marvel has acquired a combined response from the viewers, however it has seemingly wowed the critics as per assessment aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes. The crucial consensus reads, “Ms. Marvel is a genuinely fresh addition to the MCU — both stylistically and substantively — with Iman Vellani ably powering proceedings with her super-sized charisma.”

Ms Marvel is the seventh MCU collection, after WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If…?, Hawkeye and Moon Knight. The collection stars Pakistani-Canadian actor Iman Vellani within the titular function, with particular appearances by the likes of Farhan Akhtar and Fawad Khan.

Ms Marvel is presently streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar.