It makes you re-think why farcical negotiations were even on the table when Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate (whose character is played well by Chinmay Mandlekar) has openly confessed to killing Kashmiri Hindus? Why is the conviction rate so low and why was he never sent to the gallows or even given life imprisonment? The Kashmiri Pandit’s betrayal is evidently well documented in this film and makes you ask this question, why is Farooq Ahmed Dar, the self-admitted butcher of Kashmiri Pandits still roaming scot-free?Īny journalist’s core job is to speak truth to power and I wonder what a large part of journalists then were up to when these Kashmiri Pandits were brutally killed and the women raped and murdered in broad daylight with kids not spared either. 3 odd hours of encapsulation of that trauma is spine chilling. Why those intellectuals who constantly bat for the ‘azadi’ of Kashmir and call it ‘fundamentally a call for justice’ don’t see the other side of the rightful occupants of the land being forced into mass departure when that is their land and that is their country their home. Makes you angry again as to why a Yasin Malik and Syed Ali Shah Geelani were allowed to get tacit support from politicians and intellectuals like Arundhati Roy and many more. But tells you and reminds you and forces you to think why we can’t look at history in the eye without any shame. Mind you, this film tells you nothing new. After watching The Kashmir Files, it shakes my soul today that history books, academics alike have skipped pressing on the excruciating and extensive details of the plight of Kashmiri Pandits in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. But I have studied history like any other student as a module.
I am not a history major in my formal education.
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