Synopsis

Winner of the National Award 2012 for Best Investigating Film, this documentary is an unflinching account of the conflict recounted as personal history, and that of present-day Kashmir. With the series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of a people brutalized by two decades of militancy and its terrible response, the film reflects many faces of the troubled region of Kashmir.
One of those rare documentaries in which Kashmiris openly recount how their freedom is conceded and replaced by fear and institutionalized oppression.

Festivals & Awards
Winner – Silver Lotus, National Award 2012 for Best Investigative Film
Citation:
“…for unflinchingly and boldly stepping into unearthing the truth about Kashmir. A passionate inquiry connecting with the people, discovering what is called ‘Kashmiriyat’ and at the same time exposing the role of the state, police and army in alienating them from India.”

Document 10 Intl Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 2012

Director’s Statements
“I made this film to throw light on the deep distrust and misconception of the Kashmiri and his aspirations for self-governance, as well as highlight the unacceptable, institutional abuse of individual human rights in the valley. The film questions the legitimacy and human cost of sustaining India’s occupation of Kashmir for over two decades and it does so through the telling of stories of terror and fear that haunt ordinary Kashmiri folk.
The testimonies in this film are those that the mainstream media keeps away from its audiences in India. Till we Indians understand and acknowledge the pain and suffering of our Kashmiri brethren, and what is happening in the name of India in Kashmir, no solution can ever be found. We need to evolve a new idiom based on the reality of what has happened in the past twenty five years. I hope Inshallah, Kashmir provides one such reference point.”
– Ashvin Kumar

Director’s Bio
The youngest Indian writer/director with an Academy Award Oscar® nomination, and National Award winner twice consecutively for Inshallah, Football (2010) and Inshallah, Kashmir (2012) two – part feature documentary series on Kashmir, ASHVIN KUMAR is also the first Indian to be nominated at the European Film Academy with his short film Little Terrorist (2004) which has been part of official selections to over 130 film festivals, winning awards in 25 of them, including the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA). Ashvin’s next project, is a low-budget feature film Noor – story of a six-year old girl whose journey to find her ‘disappeared’ father results in her discovering mass-graves and being picked-up and ‘disappeared’ herself. The project was selected at NFDC Film‐Bazaar 2012 and at IFP’s No Borders in 2013.

Links
www.imdb.com/title/tt2255851/
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