Underplayed Gems

Inshallah, Kashmir (2012)

Inshallah, Kashmir poster
Directed by
Ashvin Kumar
Genre
documentary film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary presents the stories of ordinary people in Kashmir. Their calm, matter-of-fact voices describe how years of conflict have changed their lives.

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What happens

Inshallah, Kashmir (also known as Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror) is a 2012 documentary film directed, produced and written by Ashvin Kumar. It is the story of contemporary Kashmir. A series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of ordinary people; warped and brutalised by two decades of militancy and its terrible response. Tehelka says, "Although the camera and narrator usually provide the impartial eye in a documentary, stitching the story together, in Inshallah, Kashmir it is the Kashmiris who weave their deadpan narrative into a cohesive picture. Their matter-of-fact monotone says more than an entire valley of screams could." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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