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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Jashn-e-Azadi – A Documentary on Kashmir

It was my privilege to see this full length ( 2 hrs 20 minutes ) documentary on struggle for freedom in the Kashmir valley “Jashn-e-Azadi” - written and directed by Sanjay Kak.I thank my friend Shirin for inviting me for this show.

On 15th August 2007, as India celebrates the 60th anniversary of it's Independence, this provocative and quietly disturbing new film raises questions about freedom in Kashmir, and about the degrees of freedom in India.

It was horrifying and disturbing to see the images of Kashmir - once heaven on earth.

The documentary starts with a father visiting the graveyard to locate his sons grave,but finds difficult to do so because in one year time there are hundreds more grave added due to terrorism in valley.

Somewhere I felt the documentary showed more about the brutality of the Indian Security Forces but did not show much about the cruelty and terror of Militant from across the border.Surprisingly it also did not talk about the kashmiri pandit’s plight.

The valley has lost count of brutal death due to militant and security force.It shows helpless children's and women's,just struggling to live.

The security force have to take the burn as they are in catch five situation,they are fighting an unseen enemy and the anger of the people.The security force have in situation build the tense and terror and at many places they have started the social work and goodwill work as confidence building measure.

According to me the people of Kashmir are caught between the politics of across the borders.The unemployment and illiteracy has added the fuel to the terrorism.The religious leaders have taken advantage of this and misguided the youths of valley.

Kashmiris should be encouraged to participate in the mainstream of social,economical and political India. Let them have interaction with people of other Indian States and with the development pace of the country.

I hope there will be day when the Kashmiris’ will get Freedom from terrorism and once again we all will be proud to say “ Sare Jahan Se Acha Ye Kashmir Hamara”

To know more about the film click: http://kashmirfilm.wordpress.com/synopsis/



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