At IFFI 2025, Muzaffar Ali and Shaad Ali delivered a deeply intimate session reflecting on cinema, legacy and the unfinished dream of Zooni.

At the 56th International Film Festival of India, where global cinema flickered across screens and conversations curled into the humid Goan air, an unexpectedly intimate moment unfolded. It was a moment where cinema was not simply discussed, but inherited. When Muzaffar Ali and his son Shaad Ali took the stage, the auditorium seemed to soften. What followed was not a panel, nor a formal interview, but a rare cross generational homage to memory, imagination, and a film that has refused to die: Zooni.

The session, aptly titled “Cinema and Culture: Reflections from Two Eras," became a cinematic bridge anchored by an unfinished dream from Kashmir that c

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