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Shikara (2020)
2020 A love story
Though the film is linked with a historical event it skims the surface of that monumental travesty. The Director Vidhu Binod Chopra has tried that in the past as well His 1942 A Love Story was built around the I Dian war of Independence and he was criticised for not doing justice to the freedom movement. It is the bane of laying my fiction on history. Some look for history and get disappointed and the ones looking for a love story get distracted by their own memories of the event.
'Shikara' brilliantly arranges relationships as metaphors of the Kashmir people's oneness before the neighbour intervened. Two friends from different communities are torn apart playing into the hands of the perpetrators.
Lateef (the one who becomes an outlaw) is in love with a girl of Hindu community. He subsequently kills her unknowingly in a genocide. This is symbolic of Kashmir killing what it loves. Another comment that is made is when Shiv and Shanti go to a wedding and finds total eradication of culture. The Pandits become successful and have moved on. Shive sells his ancestral home and gives his wife a vacation. His way of letting go of the past like a bad dream. Lateef ultimately dies and Shiv continues to live in the ruins of his home in Kashmir and teaches a fresh batch of Muslim kids.
The director has steered clear of taking sides and stuck to the love stories. Shiv and Shanti, the love between friends like Lateef and Shiv, the love of Shanti for Kashmir.
Watch it for these love stories.
Bullet: Ek Dhamaka (2005)
Error in Director's Identity.
Though the name is correct, the link takes you to actor IRFAN KHAN. He is not the director of the film. The Director IRFAN KHAN is a well known Film & TV Producer/Director and can be found on IMDb Resume. IMDb needs to change the error.
The film created a lots of buzz, the reasons are listed below. 1 First film to be shot entirely in Bulgaria. 2 The crew was total Bulgarian that has worked on many Hollywood films. 3 20th Century Fox distributed the film. 4 Miss Bulgaria 'Natalie Gurkova' debut in the film. 5 Special effects, though done in India, were world class.
The film did not do much at the box office primarily because of poor publicity and butchered editing by vested interest. In the end it served no one purpose not the creator nor the marauders.