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The most show-stopping moment in the HBO Documentary Film Afghan Star was when a young aspiring singer in Afghanistan, Setara, was voted off the American Idol-type show. Caught up in emotion, Setara exuberantly danced across the stage as her headscarf fell to her neck, an act that is still extremely dangerous for a woman in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Within days, the country was in an uproar, with many people saying Setara “deserves to be killed.”

Months later, the director of Afghan Star, Havana Marking, revisits Setara in Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star, as she deals with the ever-present threats to her safety, a new husband and baby on the way, and her continuing dreams of becoming a pop idol. This intimate portrait of her new life premieres on WEDNESDAY JAN. 26 (8:00-8:45pm ET/PT) exclusively on HBO2.

Silencing the Song An Afghan Fallen Star is directed by Havana Marking; cinematographer, Phil Stebbing; editor, Dan Nelson; producers, Marking and Mike Lerner; executive producers, Martin Herring and Jahid Mohseni; original score, Simon Russell. For HBO: supervising producer, Sara Bernstein; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.