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Monday, November 25, 2024

Films

These are reviews, commentaries on various categories of films and visual reports pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir. It also features actors from Kashmir.

Filmy Felonies

Some of the crimes reported and investigated by the police in Kashmir seem to share the same story with some of the films that people...

The Kerala Story

An underrated masala film made on presumptuous love jihad and terrorism is adding a new divider. GMC Jammu emerged as the first place that...

Pathaan: Brainless Entertainer

Shah Rukh Khan's flick, Pathaan tells the same old ‘Kashmir story’ that Bollywood has always showcased, with or without the bikini, reports Fahd Khan Bollywood...

Kashmir In Israeli Tanaav

As IFFI-jury head, acclaimed Israeli filmmaker, Nadav Lapid, termed Bollywood’s 2022’s highest grosser, The Kashmir Files “crude, manipulative, violent and propaganda”, a Himalayan controversy...

A Curtain Raised 

With the re-opening of a 520-seat theatre in Srinagar, Kashmir has revived an entertainment window that existed since 1932. The closure of the cinemas...

Bollywood’s Kashmir Tales

Bollywood has been in love with Kashmir for a very long time. Its tales set and shot in Kashmir have changed with time. This...

The New Kashmir Film

In absence of a theatre, Khalid Bashir Gura watched The Kashmir Files in bits and pieces to offer a peephole view of the Bollywood...
Dr Farooq Abdullah being honoured at a Kashmir shrine

Sharing A Style?

Is Dr Farooq Abdullah delivering his political speeches the same way as Dilip Kumar would deliver his dialogues, asks Zahoor Malik Many people from television...

Mission Kashmir

Last week when the film Mission Kashmir’s cast celebrated 20 years of the ‘landmark’ film, a federal investigator raided the charity where the protagonist...

Kashmir’s Peter Dinklage

Tariq Mir has earned fame and a role in a Salman Khan starrer for being a look-alike of the Hollywood legend, reports Umar Khurshid A...

Return From The Reels

Shams Irfan on the quitting of Bollywood by promising Kashmir actor Zaira Waseem, a decision that triggered a new disquiet  in the tinsel town and...
A large gathering at the first death anniversary of Shujaat bukhari

A Year Without Shujaat

On the first anniversary of the assassination of journalist Shujaat Bukhari, Tasavur Mushtaq details why his silence is being felt as never before Silently stationed,...

Kaafir In Dukh Darya

In 2003, a PaK woman returned home from Jammu with a daughter born in jail as a result of rape by the warden and...
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Guided By Flashlight

It was the camera flashlight that gave him a vision of his career. Umar Mukhtar met a young man, passionate about camera and photography,...

Another Majnoon

In the just-released Bollywood flick, Laila Majnu, the cast includes a young Kashmiri artist Abrar Qazi, reports Umar Mukhtar As the Bollywood becomes a new...