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The Taqwacores is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 24 january 2010 with Dominic Rains

The Taqwacores (2010)

The Taqwacores
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Released in USA 24 january 2010
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Action,    Musical
Rating58% 2.9495052.9495052.9495052.9495052.949505

The Taqwacores is a 2010 film adaptation of the 2003 novel The Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight. The film was directed by Eyad Zahra and stars Bobby Naderi, Dominic Rains, and Noureen Dewulf. The film imagines a fictitious Islamic punk rock scene through characters living in a punk house in Buffalo, New York. It was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio.

Synopsis

A sophomore majoring in engineering, Yusef (Bobby Naderi) seeks living quarters with fellow Muslims after a year in the godless dorms. He moves—rather improbably, given his conservative nature—into a building inhabited by various punky misfits (it is unclear whether they are also students) wrestling with their cultural and religious identity. Or, as red-mohawked guitarist Jehangir (Dominic Rains) puts it, their "mismatching of disenfranchised subcultures."

Actors

Dominic Rains

(Jehangir Tabari)Noureen DeWulf

(Rabeya)Rasika Mathur

(Fatima)
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