Following spoilers explain the difference between the book and the movie.
In the book, Irane genuinely does not remember him at the moment, the exact conversation happens. It's like she's moved on with her life quite well. Unlike the movie, doesn't remember him at all in her daily life, it's all a story in the past to her. After their departure on the street she walks a few steps and then it hits her, she remembers in shock and says "Nasser Ali" in excitement. Nasser Ali hasn't been that successful with moving on, he still dreams about her so he is very disappointed at her and decides to die. The tar (he doesn't play the violin as in the movie, he plays the tar) is merely an instrument that provides the flow of his feelings to the world that revolves around him.
However, in the movie Irane pretends not to remember him and she thinks about him in her daily life, too. I think, what makes her pretend is that she knows he is married (after all he's the most famous violinist of his time) and she's quite aware that they cannot be together again so she sees no reason to talk to him because re-finding themselves together will only bring more pain, what's gone is gone and there's no point in turning back, everything's different now. Hers is just a decision of logic, not the heart. Nasser Ali thinks as the same as he does in the book and again decides to die for the same reason.
Either in the book or in the movie, the instrument is just the representation of his love of Irane. If he hadn't met Irane on the street or she had recognized him, he'd be content (not as happy but content) with his new violin hoping Irane is somewhere out there thinking of him like he does. After the incident on the street, his hopes are crashed just like the violin. The instrument is gone forever, Irane is gone forever, then why live?
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