In the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, a feature film about the Prophet was being screened by the Army to unite locals. Directed by Moustapha Akkad and starring Anthony Quinn in the English version, it followed the rules of depiction: the Prophet is not shown or heard on screen.Ĭut to September 14, 2012.
Majidi believes his is only the second film on the Prophet, the first being The Message, released in the original Arabic in 1976 and in English in 1977. The controversy around Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s new film Muhammad: The Messenger of God, with a fatwa issued against him and music composer AR Rahman, has a precedent of sorts, in more than one way.