Umar Riaz as Arastu Jan in 'Last Remarks'

LAST REMARKS (2012)

Role(s): Director, Writer, Actor and Editor

On the eve of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the British rulers of the Indian subcontinent prepare to depart the region amidst waves of ethnic violence. Arastu Jan, a troubled and isolated native servant to a British master, takes a dose of poison and finds himself with ten minutes to record the confession of his brief lifetime.

Based on 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allen Poe

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'Last Remarks' is a short fiction film by Umar Riaz which follows the final moments of Arastu Jan, a troubled native servant to a British master in colonial India. As the British prepare to depart on the eve of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Arastu finds himself with ten minutes to record the confession of his brief lifetime.

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