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The turmoil in Indian-administered Kashmir is an urgent topic but Ashvin Kumar’s coming-of-age film feels lifeless and leaden

Ashvin Kumar is an Indian film-maker who has made Kashmir an urgent focus of his career and was Oscar-nominated for his short film from 2004, Little Terrorist, about a Pakistani boy playing cricket who goes in search of his ball knocked over the Indian border. This nfilm, of which Kumar is writer, director and co-star, is about a very pertinent contemporary topic: the “disappeared” people of Indian Kashmir – reportedly now as many as 8,000 – picked up by the Indian forces and imprisoned without trial or access to family or lawyers as a result of the heavy-handed new security crackdown following the government revoking Kashmir’s independent status last year.

In this story, a 16-year-old Kashmiri-British girl called Noor (Zara La Peta Webb) goes to Kashmir with her mum, Zeinab (Natasha Mago), and her mum’s new partner,...

No Fathers In Kashmir Movie Review is here. The Indian Hindi-English-Urdu-Kashmiri language drama is directed by Oscar Nominated Ashvin Kumar. Featuring Zara Webb, Ashvin Kumar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Anshuman Jha and Natasha Mago, the movie is finally releasing this Friday ? April 05, 2019 after struggling with the Cbfc.? Has Ashwini Kumar able to bring the plight of Kashmir and its people piously again after Little Terrorist, and Inshallah, Kashmir?, let?s find out in No Fathers In Kashmir movie review.

Immediate reaction when the end credits of No Fathers In Kashmir roll

This truth is undeniably bitter - humanity is the biggest causality in the ongoing war for Kashmir since ages.

The Story of No Fathers In Kashmir

A charming sixteen year old Noor Meer visits Kashmir with her mother and to-be step-father. The innocent Noor having no idea about the turmoil the valley is facing since ages, is shocked to find the...

Director Ashvin Kumar comes with another riveting tale from Kashmir. “No Fathers in Kashmir” is mostly in English but also contains Hindi, Urdu and Kashmiri languages. The film stars Zara Webb, Shivam Raina, Soni Razdan, Ashvin Kumar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Anshuman Jha and Natasha Mago. The filmmakers had been through a constant struggle with the censor board and their appeal committee in India for the past eight months because of the controversial nature of the film. Finally, the film is certified as U/A (PG12) and set to release on April 5 this year.

The trailer for the film can be seen below.

Synopsis

16 year old British Kashmiri Noor visits the valley in search of her missing father and meets a 16 year old boy Majid. Their budding romance is also the beginning of the disillusionment of their world. Both search for their missing fathers in a Kashmir where “Half widows” of missing men is common place.