Alright, let's talk about Haider, the movie.
No, I'm not going to propagate #BoycottHaider. It is a great piece
of work as far as cinema goes. Story telling is excellent, however the
only question is - which part of the story?
Before you guys come shouting onto me, I'm sane enough to realize
that this movie is an adoption of a Shakespearean saga, and not
about the plea of the "once" natives who are already forgotten and the director
is bound to acclimate the plot's background according to the tragedy tale he
wants to present to the audience, he's free to do anything because - freedom of
speech, duh!.
However, apparently the co-writer Basharat Peer(who in reality is a self
proclaimed pro-separatist, wonderful!) wanted to portray in the background the
Kashmir of 90's and now what could have we expected from a pro-separatist
except the conventional pretence of the Indian Army as anti-freedom and
complete disregard for their efforts in turning the valley from yet another
Gilgit-Baltistan(hint: terror camps). And its so obvious that the same writer will easily forget to pen that one of the major exorbitant events in 90's Kashmir valley was the Pandits' genocide and ethnic cleansing by the same Kashmiri "victimized civilians" Bollywood doesn't want the rest of new age Indians to see.
(**okay in all fairness, there was a mention of including 3Lac KPs in the missing list, in one scene**)
Thus I have no intentions saying that the portrayal of reality is harsh or the
movie is anti Army or the protagonist is shown as a separatist or the movie
itself is pro-separatist, no. BUT you see, in the 90's Kashmir, the army units
deployed in the valley to combat terrorism were facing AK-47s and hand
grenades, would you have expected them to respond with flowers and Namaste,
really? They had only two options - Kill the militants or get killed by them.
And to secure the state, extreme measures were necessary, still are.
That's just my opinion, no disregard to the brilliant director at all. Fuck
that writer though, for a lot of other reasons.
Regards,
Prince
No, I'm not going to propagate #BoycottHaider. It is a great piece
of work as far as cinema goes. Story telling is excellent, however the
only question is - which part of the story?
Before you guys come shouting onto me, I'm sane enough to realize
that this movie is an adoption of a Shakespearean saga, and not
about the plea of the "once" natives who are already forgotten and the director
is bound to acclimate the plot's background according to the tragedy tale he
wants to present to the audience, he's free to do anything because - freedom of
speech, duh!.
However, apparently the co-writer Basharat Peer(who in reality is a self
proclaimed pro-separatist, wonderful!) wanted to portray in the background the
Kashmir of 90's and now what could have we expected from a pro-separatist
except the conventional pretence of the Indian Army as anti-freedom and
complete disregard for their efforts in turning the valley from yet another
Gilgit-Baltistan(hint: terror camps). And its so obvious that the same writer will easily forget to pen that one of the major exorbitant events in 90's Kashmir valley was the Pandits' genocide and ethnic cleansing by the same Kashmiri "victimized civilians" Bollywood doesn't want the rest of new age Indians to see.
(**okay in all fairness, there was a mention of including 3Lac KPs in the missing list, in one scene**)
Thus I have no intentions saying that the portrayal of reality is harsh or the
movie is anti Army or the protagonist is shown as a separatist or the movie
itself is pro-separatist, no. BUT you see, in the 90's Kashmir, the army units
deployed in the valley to combat terrorism were facing AK-47s and hand
grenades, would you have expected them to respond with flowers and Namaste,
really? They had only two options - Kill the militants or get killed by them.
And to secure the state, extreme measures were necessary, still are.
That's just my opinion, no disregard to the brilliant director at all. Fuck
that writer though, for a lot of other reasons.
Regards,
Prince
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