Kashmir’s Maharani Controversy
Jammu and Kashmir’s erstwhile assembly, once termed to be most empowered, played host to a Bollywood crew shooting Maharani, a political thriller surrounding Lalu...
Inviting Bollywood
Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed used part of the holidays between the closure of Durbar at Jammu and reopening in Srinagar in reaching out to...
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...
Beads of Breath: A Heart’s Odyssey
Shoaib Shawl skilfully depicts the driving forces compelling a man into a frenzied pursuit, resulting in a futile existence that resonates with the sentiments...
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...
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...
Flood Frames
Capturing historic floods on lens amid anger and anguish took an extraordinary spine on part of filmmakers. Those who braved flood fury and public...
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...
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...
Big Break
For Bollywood’s new Kashmiri entrant its acting that matters, not looks. Son of a 1995 Bohri Kadal massacre survivor, Abrar Zahoor enjoys accolades post...
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...
Dangal Makeover
By: Khursheed Wani
(Zaira Wasim with Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti (KL Image))
On January 14, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had no official engagement related to the...
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...
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...
