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The Kashmir Files Movie Review: An impactful watch that lacks craft

by Gagandeep Singh
March 11, 2022
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The storytelling of sensitive subjects demands more sense than sensitivity. In ‘The Kashmir Files’, director Vivek Agnihotri seems to have an abundant directorial sense to make it an impactful watch but the sensibility to make it crafty enough to be remembered for times to come is missing. On the grand landscape of Hindi Cinema, the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits deserves far more sturdier treatment than Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s ‘Shikara’. With a unique storyline that blends-in with contemporary intellectual set-ups in the capital and beyond, Agnihotri had the opportunity to make it work. But it doesn’t.The film isn’t exactly a Schindler’s List emulation. It is bold enough to go beyond the usual and draw parallels with the Holocaust of Jews by Nazis during second world war. Like I wrote above, it makes sense but lacks sensibility. The film isn’t exactly disappointing. It is watchable enough for its attempt to go out of the box. Despite the potential the storyline had, there are far too few goose-bump inducing moments in the film, credit the lack of diversity in expressions at the moments of tragedy, sadness and enticement.Actor Darshan Kumar’s transition as JNU student Krishna Pandit appears organic, believable and noteworthy. Radika Menon as liberal professor fails to induce a sense of audience gratification. The film’s casting could’ve been worked out for better.
The front at which the film stands out is the research that has gone into making of the film. Whether it’s about the significance of Lord Shiva in the Kashmiri Pandit community or the well-documented tragedies that the community suffered in the 1990s. It is neither dramatised enough nor is it put out in the documentary-style storytelling (like Shoojit Sircar’s October) and that’s exactly where the enticement part of the story goes down.
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