"Inshallah Kashmir" Documentary film screening followed by Q&A with the director Ashvin Kumar at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 12th April 2013
Time : 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Duration : 80 minutes & 52 seconds
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 91-11-43663333 (Habitat World) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' & 'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : 'Inshallah Kashmir' Documentary film screening followed by Q&A with the director Ashvin Kumar.
SYNOPSIS:
A Kashmiri poet has said of the Indian occupation of Kashmir, “they make a desolation and call it peace.”
Once the epitome of a syncretic, mystical culture, a deep heritage of learning, of arts and craft; the crucible of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufi-Islam; verdant forests, snow-capped peaks, populated by a guileless, beautiful people; till the dark cloud of terror enveloped the Kashmir valley overnight.
This film is the story of the conflict recounted as personal history, and that of present-day Kashmir. A series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of a people brutalized by two decades of militancy and its terrible response. Together they provide a sense of what it is like to be living terror and the irony of living with terror under the watch of a secular, democratic republic, India.
Today Kashmir is all about army, crackdowns, curfews, widows, orphans, rape, enforced disappearances, fake-encounters, mass graves, sadistic torture and trauma, and new categories of people like 'half-widows'. Twenty years of atrocities have altered the average Kashmiri’s perception of ‘normalcy’. And yet, there isn't a more congenial, generous, warm-hearted and cultured individual than she.
So, military and paradise, bulletproof jackets and the veil; breathtaking vistas of mountains and crystal lakes are projected through barbed wire. Darkened army bunkers, the alert eyes of battle-ready soldiers watch over not an enemy or a border but school children, women going shopping, men delivering goods.
And the certainty of yet another militant attack, blood, limbs, followed by reprisals by the armed forces. Such is the state of ‘normalcy’ into which children are born and raised. A cycle institutionalized and ritualized since the advent of militancy in 1991.
The filmmakers were able to record rare and precious footage under the guise of making a movie on Kashmiri football (www.inshallahfootball.com). The rare, unmediated access has resulted in footage that very few people have managed to record.
It gives a human face to militancy and the plight of the average Kashmiri. It demands a solution to this endless and mindless conflict.
This is the story of Indian democracy, the grand experiment that was founded with Indian independence from the British. Of how it has been tested in Kashmir, and found wanting.
‘Inshallah Kashmir : Living Terror’ answers comprehensively the question, often asked in exasperation by those who live in the rest-of-India, ‘what the hell is it that the Kashmiris want?’
CREDITS:
Director and Narrator: Ashvin Kumar
Co-producer: Jaaved Jaafferi
Associate Producer: Giulia Achilli
Editor: Ashvin Kumar
Associate Editor: Yashodara Udupa
Assistant Editor: Aditi Joshi
Camera: Ashvin Kumar, Shivraj Santhakumar, Vijay Bedi
Music performed by: Sajad Bin Mohammad
Sound recordists: Roland Heap, Udit Duseja, Pratik Biswas
Sound editor: Nora Wendel
Text quotations from: Agha Shahid Ali ‘The Country without a Post Office’, Basharat
Peer ‘Curfewed Night’, Nitasha Kaul ‘Kashmir: A place of blood and memory’
Kashmir Research Consultants: Mohammad Umar Baba, Wasim Khalid
Kashmiri Translators: Ajaz Kotroo, Muhammad Gowhar Bhat
Special thanks: Neil Sadwelkar, Dheights studio
Interviews with: Sajad Malik, Parvez Ahmed, Khemlata Wakhloo, O.N. Wakhloo, Shameena
Bano Baba, Bashir Baba, Omar Abdullah, Abdul Hamid, Wajahat Habibullah, Parveena
Ahangar, Zahoor Ahmed Hajam, Haseena, Bashir Ahmed’s family, Sameera Begum, Dr. Amit
Wanchoo, Abdul Qadeer Dar, Manzoor, Ghulam Mansoor, Parvez Khurram, Vrinda Grover,
Parvez Imroz, Zoona, Javed Pathan, Ghulam Mohd Pathan.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Film Genre: Documentary
Original video format: HD
Sound format: Stereo
Screening format: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Original language of the film: English (partly Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri)
Is the film subtitled in English: Yes
Country of production: India, UK
Year completed: January, 2012
Related Events : Movies at Cultural Places | Movies
Duration : 80 minutes & 52 seconds
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 91-11-43663333 (Habitat World) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' & 'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : 'Inshallah Kashmir' Documentary film screening followed by Q&A with the director Ashvin Kumar.
SYNOPSIS:
A Kashmiri poet has said of the Indian occupation of Kashmir, “they make a desolation and call it peace.”
Once the epitome of a syncretic, mystical culture, a deep heritage of learning, of arts and craft; the crucible of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufi-Islam; verdant forests, snow-capped peaks, populated by a guileless, beautiful people; till the dark cloud of terror enveloped the Kashmir valley overnight.
This film is the story of the conflict recounted as personal history, and that of present-day Kashmir. A series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of a people brutalized by two decades of militancy and its terrible response. Together they provide a sense of what it is like to be living terror and the irony of living with terror under the watch of a secular, democratic republic, India.
Today Kashmir is all about army, crackdowns, curfews, widows, orphans, rape, enforced disappearances, fake-encounters, mass graves, sadistic torture and trauma, and new categories of people like 'half-widows'. Twenty years of atrocities have altered the average Kashmiri’s perception of ‘normalcy’. And yet, there isn't a more congenial, generous, warm-hearted and cultured individual than she.
So, military and paradise, bulletproof jackets and the veil; breathtaking vistas of mountains and crystal lakes are projected through barbed wire. Darkened army bunkers, the alert eyes of battle-ready soldiers watch over not an enemy or a border but school children, women going shopping, men delivering goods.
And the certainty of yet another militant attack, blood, limbs, followed by reprisals by the armed forces. Such is the state of ‘normalcy’ into which children are born and raised. A cycle institutionalized and ritualized since the advent of militancy in 1991.
The filmmakers were able to record rare and precious footage under the guise of making a movie on Kashmiri football (www.inshallahfootball.com). The rare, unmediated access has resulted in footage that very few people have managed to record.
It gives a human face to militancy and the plight of the average Kashmiri. It demands a solution to this endless and mindless conflict.
This is the story of Indian democracy, the grand experiment that was founded with Indian independence from the British. Of how it has been tested in Kashmir, and found wanting.
‘Inshallah Kashmir : Living Terror’ answers comprehensively the question, often asked in exasperation by those who live in the rest-of-India, ‘what the hell is it that the Kashmiris want?’
CREDITS:
Director and Narrator: Ashvin Kumar
Co-producer: Jaaved Jaafferi
Associate Producer: Giulia Achilli
Editor: Ashvin Kumar
Associate Editor: Yashodara Udupa
Assistant Editor: Aditi Joshi
Camera: Ashvin Kumar, Shivraj Santhakumar, Vijay Bedi
Music performed by: Sajad Bin Mohammad
Sound recordists: Roland Heap, Udit Duseja, Pratik Biswas
Sound editor: Nora Wendel
Text quotations from: Agha Shahid Ali ‘The Country without a Post Office’, Basharat
Peer ‘Curfewed Night’, Nitasha Kaul ‘Kashmir: A place of blood and memory’
Kashmir Research Consultants: Mohammad Umar Baba, Wasim Khalid
Kashmiri Translators: Ajaz Kotroo, Muhammad Gowhar Bhat
Special thanks: Neil Sadwelkar, Dheights studio
Interviews with: Sajad Malik, Parvez Ahmed, Khemlata Wakhloo, O.N. Wakhloo, Shameena
Bano Baba, Bashir Baba, Omar Abdullah, Abdul Hamid, Wajahat Habibullah, Parveena
Ahangar, Zahoor Ahmed Hajam, Haseena, Bashir Ahmed’s family, Sameera Begum, Dr. Amit
Wanchoo, Abdul Qadeer Dar, Manzoor, Ghulam Mansoor, Parvez Khurram, Vrinda Grover,
Parvez Imroz, Zoona, Javed Pathan, Ghulam Mohd Pathan.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Film Genre: Documentary
Original video format: HD
Sound format: Stereo
Screening format: DVD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Original language of the film: English (partly Hindi, Urdu, Kashmiri)
Is the film subtitled in English: Yes
Country of production: India, UK
Year completed: January, 2012
Related Events : Movies at Cultural Places | Movies
"Inshallah Kashmir" Documentary film screening followed by Q&A with the director Ashvin Kumar at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 12th April 2013
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