The Kashmir Files Review: Must watch movie for all the Indians as it tells the story of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in hard hitting way
The Kashmir Files Movie Rating: 3.5 Stars
Just watched The Kashmir Files movie in Cinemas. So let’s focus on the cast, release date story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Anupam Kher, Bhasha Sumbli, Darshan Kumaar, Chinmay Mandlekar, Mithun Chakraborty, Prakash Belawadi, Puneet Issar, Atul Srivastava and Mrinal Kulkarni
Director: Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri
Release Date: 11th March 2022 in Cinemas
Story: It is a true story, based on video interviews of the first generation victims of The Kashmir Genocide of Kashmiri Pandit Community. Film film opens with kids playing in the freezing cold of Jan 1990. While the commentary about Sachin Tendulkar’s cricket continues to play on the radio, a couple of Kashmiri Muslim boys hit a Hindu young boy named Shiva (Prithviraj Sarnaik) asking him to shout Pakistan Zindabad.
Seeing him getting beaten up, his good friend Abdul holds his hand and asks him to run from there and hide. But soon after, we see a huge rally of Kashmiri Muslim youths setting Pandits’ houses on fire while asking them to Raliv, Galiv yaa Tchaliv means either convert into Islam, die or leave Kashmir.
Later we see a couple of terrorists including their head Bitta (Chinmay Mandlekar) entering Pushkar Nath Pandit(Anupam Kher)’s home. Seeing them knock at the door, Sharda Pandit (Bhasha Sumbli) asks her husband to hide in a rice drum. But before that, their neighbors had already told them where he was hiding. Despite her thousands of attempts to stop them, these terrorists enter the store and opened fire at the drum. And it was the next scene that saw my tears roll down my cheeks. To save her father-in-law and her sons from them she’s forced to eat rice soaked in her husband’s blood.
Sharda’s youngest son Krishna (Darshan Kumaar) is all grown up and he’s a confused JNU student who’s brainwashed by his professor Radhika Menon (Pallavi Joshi). But to fulfil his grandfather Pushker Nath’s last wish, Krishna travels to the valley to keep the former’s ashes at his own home in Kashmir along with his other good friends an IAS officer Brahma Dutt (Mithun Chakraborty), Dr. Mahesh Kumar (Prakash Belawadi), DGP Hari Narain (Puneet Issar) and Journalist Vishnu Ram (Atul Srivastava). This is when Krishna comes to know about the truth and decides to tell everyone about it in his own way.
Positives
1. Excellent Performances
2. Story
3. Direction
4. Climax
5. Dialogues
Negatives
1. Length
2. Music
3. Screenplay
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I watched the trailer of this film planned to watch this movie in cinemas because movie based on true events and tells the story of exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.
The Kashmir Files is based on a true tragedy, the emotionally triggering film sheds light on the plight of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus), a religious minority in the 1990s Kashmir valley, who were compelled to flee their homes by the Islamic militants. The film portrays the events surrounding the exodus as a “genocide” in which thousands of Kashmiri Hindus were said to have been massacred, women raped and children shot. The displaced families are shown living as refugees till today.
Vivek Agnihotri has taken up a subject that is inherently very potent and emotional as it deals with a human drama. In that sense, his story has a lot of substance. However, his screenplay is not very hard-hitting as it gives the impression that it is more scattered than systematic. The frequent flashbacks (and sometimes, flashbacks within flashbacks) get confusing for the viewers to understand the drama or at least come in the way of easy comprehension. Although the story is about the entire community of Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir, the writers have concentrated too heavily on the story of Pushkar Nath Pandit, thereby diluting the enormity of the genocide. The characters of DGP Shiv Narain and journalist Vishnu Ram are sketchy because of which the lack of concern shown by the administration and media does not get underlined well enough.
The cold-blooded killing of Pushkar Nath Pandit’s son in front of the entire family is terrific and has a chilling effect on the viewers. The college campus scenes are wonderfully written. Overall, movie is entertaining, it’s fast-paced and has dialogues that will leave you in splits. Overall, this is must watch movie to all the Indians to know the real story behind exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. My view on this movie Highly Recommended.
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