Kashmir: Fade in, Fade out
Till late nineteen-eighties almost every Bollywood filmmaker would come to Kashmir to treat his audience with the scenic backgrounds from the land of dreams...
Career in film making
He went against the norm to do a course in film making at the prestigious Satyajit Ray Film Technology Institute. Today, Raja Shabir is...
A dream realised
From a small role in a college play, Shahnawaz Bhat nurtured dreams of becoming an actor. And a chance workshop led him to realise...
A ‘Lamhaa’ Wasted
Lamhaa may not be just another jingoistic approach of telling the Kashmir tale, but the untold story of Kashmir remains untold throughout the film....
Acclaimed act
He has been a lead actor in Mahesh Bhatt’s movie Dhokha. His work won him a lot of acclaim. Muzammil Ibrahim’s road to Bollywood...
Kicking a storm
Movie masala and real life are set to clash once again in Kashmir as football star Mehrajudin Wadoo wants his name disassociated from Piyush...
From Surankote to Mumbai
For Rahat Kazmi, the young director who shot into limelight with his debut film Dekh Bhai Dekh, success consists of a series of little...
Nehru’s Love for Kashmir
Edwina-Nehru relationship and its impact on J&K’s fate is a favourite debate for historians, but India does not seem ready to watch what it...
Mumbai calling
Lured by an advertisement for singing audition in 2007, Shabir Malik landed in Mumbai and began a journey in bollywood. Hamidullah Dar reports. In...
Bollywood boosts Kashmir kid’s dreams
A school kid from a Kashmir village who sang in Piyush Jha’s just released film, Sikander, dreams of making it big in Bollywood. Hamidullah...
A tryst with silver screen
In 1957, Ghulam Mohiudin Mir was a 10-year-old orphan facing hardships after the death of his parents. He took a journey that changed his...
From the ‘Zero Bridge’
A Kashmiri-American director shot his film ‘Zero Bridge’ in Kashmir that tells the story of common people in Kashmir. Nafeesa Syeed interacts with the...
