Can't Believe Bloodbath I Saw | Warning: NOT for the Faint Hearted | My #thekashmirfiles #review

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So, the Kashmir Files has been watched and at the onset let me warn you, this is not an easy film to watch. It's hardhitting, brutal, emotional and sometimes spine-chilling, in the way, it shows the atrocities faced by the Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, especially, in January 1990.

The film has released in theatres and not on Zee 5. I watched the uncut version in a special screener from Zee 5 and I am not sure if, what you saw or will see in the theatres will have all the scenes that will leave you shocked and numb and it's a film that does not mince words.

Writer-Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri takes us straight to the day when the massacre in Kashmir began in January 1990 when a young Shiva, a Kashmiri Pandit, is beaten up while playing cricket. What follows is a horrific squence of events as we see families, women, children, and seniors being shot at, butchered, humiliated, for who they are. It is so brutal and so recent that you will wonder why you never really heard about it. It was 1990 guys. It was the time when most of us were old enough to atleast know what's happening around us. I was less than 10 years old but I remember the serial blasts, the riots in Mumbai, the hijacking of the IC814...but over the years, we have only heard some scattered voices about the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits. This film that is based on testimonials from the real people shows the mass exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits that by all accounts presented in the film, was a genocide, in the most gruesome manner.

Vivek Agnihotri drives his narrative through the eyes of the Pandits - a Kashmiri family, led by retitred teacher Pushkar Nath, played brilliantly by Anupam Kher, who sees his entire family perish, at the hands of the militants, who force themselves into his home and kill defenceless people. Anupam Kher gets into the skin of his character of a true blue Kashmiri, who never loses hope of returning to his motherland. In many ways, he becomes the voice of his people trying to fight the killers, who don't think twice before pulling the trigger on his people. Mithun Chakraborty gives IAS officer Brahma Dutt, an honest and emotional portrayal. He lives the trauma of a man, who is supposed to be in power and help but instead feels helpless, powerless and severly let down by the administration that becomes a mute spectator to the bloodbath in Kashmir. Darshan Kumaar seems a little older for the role of a student, but as the film reaches its climax, his moving monologue, justifies casting him in the role of the gullible Krishna Pandit, who is only fed lies about the past, present and future of Kashmir including about the fate of his own family. Pallavi Joshi's character is over the top for sure but somehow mirrors a section of our society that wouldn't let peace prevail in Kashmir, at any cost. Rest of the artists, including those in smaller, but critical roles like the one, who plays Shardha Pandit, do thier jobs perfectly well.

This one is not an easy watch. This mustn't have been an easy make either. So, full marks to Vivek Agnihotri for ripping off the bandaid and revisiting the pain of lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits, whose bloody tales of voilent end never really made it to the mainstream narrative. Many have criticised the film for not being balanced, but that was clearly not what the film's story is. It's the story of Kashmiri Pandits and their exodus that cannot be explained as rhetoric, fake narrative or agenda. It is the truth and The Kashmir Files are the reasons.

I will abstain from rating this film as it is beyond that but it is a must, must watch.

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