Am I Making the Film for Hindu Rashtra? I'm Just Telling a Story

Further elaborating on why making a movie on Kashmir has all the time invited controversies, Pallavi says, “India and Pakistan have been divided on non secular grounds and that battle continued in Kashmir so there was all the time this division between the Hindus and the Muslims. The solely factor is that whereas in the remainder of India, Muslims have been in minority, in Kashmir the Hindus have been in minority. When the whole Operation Tupac was began by Zia-ul-Haq (Former President of Pakistan), the thought was to drive away all the Hindus from the Valley and merge Kashmir into Pakistan. Hence, terrorism began. The younger girls and boys have been radicalised by the terrorists into believing that we have been providing you with the separate Islamic State of Kashmir which by no means occurred and is rarely going to occur as a result of Kashmir is a a part of India. If it hadn’t been such an necessary a part of India, we wouldn’t have all our cash, sources, and our Army going and stationed at Kashmir. So when this divide occurred on the traces of faith, something that you just contact about Kashmir turns into one-sided.

“I’m yet to see a film that shows a Muslim point of view of the Valley as well as the stories of the people and the children who were born after 1990. Has anybody made a film on what they are going through?”

Pallavi, whose character motivates college students to proceed the motion and protests for an unbiased Kashmir in the movie, says that she was approached by Kashmiri Pandits to make a movie on this topic.

“We solely knew about this tragedy in bits and items. The bigger opinion was that Kashmiri Pandits left the Valley due to terrorism which was utter garbage. They have been compelled to go away the Valley they usually have been compelled with weapons and swords. Today, we reside in a cosmopolitan society and we're surrounded by range however that's not the image of Kashmir as a result of there’s no range there.

“So, the minute you want to make anything on Kashmir, and especially if you want to make something on the tragedy of Hindus and I’m calling it ‘the tragedy of Hindus’ because the reason it happened was because of their faith, and hence we are talking about Hindus so obviously there are going to be multiple questions that, ‘Oh, you will make a propaganda film.’ What is a propaganda film? Am I making the film for Hindu Rashtra? I’m just telling the story. When Jews make films on The Holocaust or Steven Spielberg makes a film on The Holocaust, nobody asks him if it’s a propaganda film. We have made a film about a section of society who has been displaced from their ancestral homes for the last 32 years and I feel it’s a very touchy subject,” Pallavi provides.