High On Creativity
A celebration of a film set in scenic Ladakh. Bilal A Jan attends the event and reviews the festivities.
A film festival in one of...
Bollywood Boosting Tourism?
Cinema is one of the most potent mediums of promoting culture, but Bollywood has used Kashmir either for its scenic beauty or to create...
Aborted Zooni, The Film
Twenty-three years ago, hailed as a dream project of the then Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah and noted filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, the shooting of a film on the queen poetess Haba Khatun began with a lot of fan-fare.
InshAllah Kashmir
Amid a raging debate recently in India about freedom of expression, filmmaker Ashvin Kumar bypassed the censor board and released his film about Kashmir...
KHUDI – The Fountainhead
A film based on a global bestseller novel debuted in Kashmir recently. SHAMS IRFAN reviews a Kashmiri rendition of The Fountainhead.
Before the screening of...
Shooting In The Silence
Suffocated under indefinite curfew, four young students came together on the Facebook and evolved an idea of making a documentary video about an eight-year-old...
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...
