Hyderabad, June 20 -- In India, cinema becomes a national conversation very quickly when the story fits the mood. But when a film asks people to look at Palestinian suffering without filters, the silence becomes louder than the applause.

Journalist Rana Ayyub has now put that silence into words after watching The Voice of Hind Rajab. In her Instagram post, Rana said she came home "shaken" after watching the film, but what broke her was not just the story on screen. It was the sight of barely ten people sitting inside a South Bombay theatre. She said she had travelled from New Bombay to Fort to watch the film, adding that the ticket at Sterling Cineplex cost only rs 250 per person.

The empty theatre, according to Rana, felt like an "indi...