So it’s now what? The second week of this film. My theatre was houseful today. Not one single seat free. It was actually kinda cute to see people bring their entire families across multiple generations to come watch this movie. So before watching it, the sheer amount of people (many of whom turn their nose on Bollywood movies) that told me that it’s a must watch astounded me.
Coming to the actual movie..
A part of you thinks you know, thinks you’re well read enough to know what happened to the KPs. But the details of some of the horrors even I was unaware of. The fact that this happened 6 years post 1984 and yet the amount of Indians that grew up in India when the genocide happened and were fully grown adults at the time and yet had no clue of the KPs plight truly saddens me.
Read a few negative reviews on Anupam Kher’s acting but this felt like a heartfelt performance to me. The cast overall did a pretty good job. I think the only thing that bothered me was that Krishna’s change of heart felt a little too sudden, despite his revelation. Or maybe I just feel like in reality those that are brainwashed rarely have such a change of heart.
Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing prepares you for the horrors displayed in the last 10 minutes of this film. A massacre in broad daylight. Their only crime, being Kashmiri Hindus.I had to cover my eyes, I just could not digest it. I cannot even imagine the PTSD many KPs live with today.
The media, the politicians, the terrorists, each and every one is culpable. KP blood is on their hands. The rage against them will never be extinguished, at least not for me personally. As many before me have already said, that the KPs went through this and never ever once raised a weapon shows you who these people really are. Their 7th exodus. Many came and tried to convert them. Many came to rape their women and kill their men. Many came to wipe them out from their own motherland and drive them away. Yet not once did these people think of picking up a gun in rebellion. Insane amounts of respect and I’m just so so sorry they had to go through this.💔
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