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...
Love @ LoC
With a cute mute Pakistani-Kashmir girl lost at Wagha border, actor Salman Khan created a highly emotional masala movie that happily ends at the...
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...
“Bollywood has started to explore Kashmir all over again”
Famous for his creative ads like VISA debit card and Google reunion, Bollywood filmmaker Amit Sharma, tells Insha Mir that hopefully, one day I’ll...
“On one hand we call Kashmir a part of India and on the other...
Actor Rahul Bhat, who was recently in Kashmir shooting for his upcoming film Fitoor, made headlines for his bold comments on Kashmir and demiltrilization...
Reliving The Past
As one of world’s oldest reel-news agency moves its 85000 motion films from safe houses to social media for free, Kashmir gets its bit...
Homecoming ‘Haider’
It was Vishal Bardawaj’s Haider that helped Kashmiri artists revive their lost connections with their homeland. Shams Irfan meets three Kashmiri actors who successfully...
Talking Lights
He wanted to be a creative person like his goldsmith father, but in a different field. Mohammad Younis Zargar, whose work as cinematographer was...
Murmurs Of A Political Thriller
Irfan Mehraj
When mainstream Indian film-makers zoom their cameras on any political turmoil scouring the subcontinent’s landscape they come up with two visions. One is...
“A decade ago could we imagine that a small projector and a laptop could...
Independent filmmaker Sanjay Kak of Jashn-e-Azadi fame tells Junaid Nabi Bazaz how his new film Red Ant Day which talks about Maoist struggle is...
Breaking Tradition
Khawar Jamsheed is the only line-producer from the valley who has tirelessly worked with Bollywood directors to bring them back to the scenic landscapes...
“Cinema is like a glass. It depends on whether you are pouring milk or...
For the first time in the history of conflict, a central government institution has financed a documentary ‘Ocean of Tears’ on human rights violations...
VALLEY OF TEARS
Ocean of Tears is the first government funded documentary on Kashmir's human rights crisis. In anticipation of its maiden screening,120000 people watched it. Shams...
The Ashai Phenomenon
The hard work and dedication of a Kashmiri doctor has gained him a celebrity status in the field of physiotherapy with an elite list...
Harud, the new beginning
Aamir Bashir’s Harud is born out of distress, out of the anguish that has become a routine for people living in a conflict ridden...
