The Kashmir Files: A powerful film that makes a lot of sense
The Kashmir Files: A powerful film that makes a lot of sense
Delicate topic narrative needs more logic than delicacy. Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri appears to have an abundance of cinematic acumen in ‘The Kashmir Files,’ but the sensitivity to render it cunning enough to be recalled for a long period of time is absent. The flight of Kashmiri Pandits demands a far more robust depiction than Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s ‘Shikara’ inside the great panorama of Bollywood industry. Agnihotri seemed to have the chance at making it happen with a distinctive plot that ties in with the modern intellectual frame inside the city and outside. However, this is not the case.
The movie isn’t really a re-enactment of Schindler’s Note. It is daring enough just to make a comparison with said Holocaust perpetrated by Nazis against Jews during World War II. It stands to reason, but it loses compassion, as I already stated. The movie isn’t precisely a letdown. It’s worth watching for its effort to break out from the confines. Notwithstanding the show’s promise, there really are few enough goose-bumping moments in the picture, owing to the absence of variation in reactions during tragic, sorrowful, and enticing scenes.
Darshan Kumar’s transformation into Krishna Pandit, a JNU pupil, is natural, genuine, and notable. Radika Menon’s portrayal of a liberal professor falls flat with the viewers. The selection for the picture should have been finer.
The study that was put into creating the movie is among the aspects of the movie that sticks apart. Whether this is regarding Lord Shiva’s importance inside the Kashmiri Pandit group or perhaps the group’s well-documented tragedy there in the 1990s. It is neither sufficiently exaggerated, nor is it told in docudrama narrative (as in Shoojit Sircar’s October), this is where the movie’s lure lies.
The Kashmir Files is indeed a movie that draws you into an emotional journey before returning you to your everyday life. A rational matter like this needed as much delicacy as it did logic.
In cinemas now is The Kashmir Files running.
