Kashmir files.
After reading about the movie that had the most interesting topic since decades, we couldn't wait till all stars come together to help us watch the movie in peace. Sneaking out time off from every pressing work, we somehow got into movie hall.
My review: 3.5 stars as a movie and a 5 fine stars for the information in it.
The movie is fine-studded by hidden gems of truth; truth that was seldom spoken. Offlate it's a complete politicisation of any opinion about the issue that let a wonderful part of our nation burn and get scarred for ever. The moment anyone speaks about the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits, they are branded a certainty but instead if anyone sympathises with the false and decorated narrative of media around the world, they are approved in no time.
No matter how ghastly the past is, I everytime fail to understand the pinks with which the media wants to paint it and present to the world. We aptly forget that the cheapsters in media play yellow journalism and embrace what we also think appeals to us; may be by believing that the genocide was an exodus.
I don't think it is that appealing to imagine a person cut in halves on a saw or ladies who were brutally raped or died even before someone would get to them with such intentions.
Even today I fail to totally imagine how a race can be deemed harmless and did not figure out what was coming at them and fight it out instead of giving in. This movie has made an effort at bringing together the facts, as many as possible within the boundaries of keeping it as a movie and not a documentary. In the process, ofcourse there are shortcomings in keeping the audience connected throughout and hence the 3.5 rating for it as a movie.
As I say that, I am fully aware that every Indian must watch the movie since the facts have merely been hidden away for too long.
Unlike the Holocaust on Jews, Cambodian genocide in Democratic Kampuchia, Armenian genocide in ottoman or the atrocities on Rohingyas of Myanmar, this story of Kashmiri Pandits is hidden since long and it needed a pardafash too. Afterall, we must open our eyes to what we call it knowledge without biased rally cry of Muslims being minority, oppressed and suppressed.
The experts quote even more of what happened in various books. No movie of 2.5 hour can do justice to what the entire community of Kashmiri Pandits went through; seeing a demon in peaceful neighbours, to seeing their own friends turning them in, to seeing their children die before them, to leaving everything that they believed is theirs behind, to being penniless, to seeing a generation of miscarriages, broken families, and yet not leaving their passion for learning and education despite the genocide, to building their broken hearts and homes in a new place unknown to them till then.
Aah! Yes, it's less on screen and ofcourse more to plunder on the topic.
