Meesha Shafi’s “Mustache” wins an award at SXSW

• Meesha Shafi is a renowned Pakistani artist.
• Mustache has received accolades from The Film Stage.
• The film Mustache portrays the story of Ilyas.

Renowned Pakistani artist Meesha Shafi has expanded her list of accomplishments by taking home the 2023 Audience Award for Narrative Feature Competition at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival.

Mustache has received accolades from The Film Stage, which called it a “rebellious yet minor coming-of-age tale,” in recognition of the excellent work of Imran J. Khan, who both directed and wrote the movie. Producers Christina Won, Jessica Sittig, Christopher Storer, and Tyson Bidner worked with Khan to make the movie, which helped it gain popularity and notoriety.

The film Mustache portrays the story of Ilyas, a Pakistani teenager attending a public high school in San Jose after being expelled from an Islamic elementary school for starting a fight. Ilyas’s primary problem is that he developed a moustache when he was ten years old, which makes for awkward class pictures. The movie, which takes place in the mid-1990s, beautifully depicts the emotional agony of a young person who is confronted with what seems like an enormous, life-altering situation.

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In January, Shafi shared a photo of herself wearing a hijab and expressing her excitement for the movie, in which she is portraying a young adolescent. She commended her castmates Hasan Minhaj, Alicia Silverstone, and Atharva Verma and said that Mustache was a lovely movie.

 

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It is without a doubt a noteworthy accomplishment for those who support the mainstream representation of Muslims that Mustache was honoured at SXSW, a prominent Texas-based yearly event that honours creative talents in music, film, and comedy.

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