This is what merits for success of any film based on a particular race and dealing with a sensitive subject.
Through the cut aways and transitions woven artfully in to a concept and following a smooth narrative, the film covers a period from 1989 to 2006 in Kashmir.
Sanjay Kak made it straight to the hearts of jam packed audience at Tagore Hall and emerged as a filmmaker undisputed.
Images of deserted Lal Chowk on August 15, army men frisking the people and the death and destruction is what people have been all through since insurgency broke out in Kashmir. Hats off to Sanjay Kak for depicting it all unaltered.
The scenes of wailing women next to lifeless bodies, an old man struggling to search for the grave of his son’s grave in the Srinagar’s Martyrs graveyard and thoughtful Kashmiri poetry of Zareef Ahmad Zareef made many in the audience cry.
Equally charging were the images showing the defiance of people chanting slogans and plundering the bunkers of army in Kupwara after the killing of four boys (who had ventured out of a marriage ceremony to smoke a cigarette outside).
It went to such an extent that audience in the back rows of the hall joined in by answering the slogans being showcased in the film. Synchronization of voices was followed by a clapping of hands. Posted in Kashmir.
– April 12, 2007
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