Glimpses of the Iranian film that is being widely criticised for portraying Prophet Muhammed
Updated on Mar 26, 2015 06:33 PM IST
The biggest budget movie in the history of Iranian cinema is about the holiest figure in Islam: the Prophet Muhammed. The film portrays the Prophet's childhood from his birth in Mecca up to the age of 12 when, according to Muslim historians, he meets a Christian monk, Bahira, in the Syrian city of Bosra who foretells that young Muhammed is going to be a messenger of God. In February, Egypt's Al-Azhar Islamic Centre called on Iran to ban the film. Al-Azhar in its statement claimed that production of such films undermines the sanctity and lofty status of the messenger of God. The film is the first part of a trilogy that will be released in Persian, Arabic and English.
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