Arshad unravels how his father went from being a cosmopolitan man to a devout Muslim and searches for reasons for such a radical change in personality. Questions of psychological, sexual, and physical abuse and the agonies of rebirth through migration and coming out are revealed using over 30 years of archival material that provides insight into an extraordinarily well-documented family history. "Abu is an open diary, a heart-wrenching story of life’s love and loss and a young immigrant’s story of identity preservation in the midst of losing everything he grew up knowing." (austinchronicle.com)
Arshad Khan, a gay man from Pakistan, examines his relationship to his father, a devout Muslim, through a vast amount of home video footage.
Arshad unravels how his father went from being a cosmopolitan man to a devout Muslim and searches for reasons for such a radical change in personality. Questions of psychological, sexual, and physical abuse and the agonies of rebirth through migration and coming out are revealed using over 30 years of archival material that provides insight into an extraordinarily well-documented family history.
"Abu is an open diary, a heart-wrenching story of life’s love and loss and a young immigrant’s story of identity preservation in the midst of losing everything he grew up knowing." (austinchronicle.com)