{"id":4462,"date":"2016-07-16T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:35:16","slug":"no-fathers-in-kashmir-review-necessary-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4462","title":{"rendered":"No Fathers in Kashmir Review: A Necessary Film that Poses Questions that Can\u2019t Be Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>shvin Kumar\u2019s <\/p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fathers in Kashmir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the third Hindi movie release (after<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/hamid-review-kashmir-post-pulwama-world\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamid<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notebook<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in the last month that is set in the Valley. It\u2019s telling that it&#8217;s also the only one that spent nearly a year fighting for a CBFC certificate. The film\u2019s incendiary title, that takes an outright jibe at the Indian armed forces for the disappearances of scores of Kashmiri men, is a dead giveaway to why it might have ruffled the censor board\u2019s feathers.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the very first frame of No Fathers in Kashmir, Kumar, who directed two National Award-winning documentaries \u2013 <em>Inshallah, Kashmir<\/em> and <em>Inshallah, Football<\/em> (both were set in the conflict-ridden state) \u2013 comes across as an opinionated filmmaker who has a lot to say. As a result, the movie is generously littered with \u201chalf <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/widowed-by-english\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">widows<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, forced disappearances, and accusations against security forces for human rights violations. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the most part, Kumar\u2019s evaluation of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/pulwama-attack-educated-fidayeens-militancy-kashmir\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kashmir<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> crisis through the eyes of a helpless younger generation, is a novel, riveting exercise. With the exception of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haider<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Hindi cinema has largely stuck to romances set in Kashmir whose trajectory don&#8217;t get dictated by the conflict. Usually, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/instagram-stories-new-rules-love\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">love stories<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> set in the state completely ignore its chaotic past and present \u2013 in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laila Majnu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notebook<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for instance, the courtship remains unaffected by the tensions in the region. But in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fathers in Kashmir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the state is both a protagonist and an antagonist.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film revolves around 16-year-old Noor (Zara Webb), a lively Londoner who fishes out her phone to capture every memory, accompanying her mother to Kashmir. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/danger-zone-kashmir-national-highway\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Valley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> could have been her home had it not been reduced to a living graveyard. It\u2019s a stopover that upends her life: Noor falls in love with Majid (an evocative Shivam Raina), a Kashmiri Muslim who is a reminder of the life that she escaped.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47754\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1554457995.jpg\" alt=\"no_fathers_in_kashmir\" width=\"775\" height=\"407\" \/>\n\n<p>Alipur Films<\/p>\n\n<\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over a few weeks in Kashmir, Noor comes to terms with the truth about her father\u2019s absence. For the last decade of her life, she was told that her father willingly left them. It\u2019s only when Noor meets her grieving <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/indian-families-adulting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">grandparents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Soni Razdan is especially haunting) that she discovers that he was in fact one of the countless men who were picked up by the army and never returned: On paper, he isn\u2019t dead yet. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fathers in Kashmir <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has a pertinent scene that articulates how easily these disappeared men are erased from the consciousness of the state. While scouting the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/memories-family-photo-album-nostalgia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">family photo album<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Noor\u2019s grandparents tell her that they had to burn all pictures of her father to avoid further abuse. As a result, there exists no proof of his existence, prompting Noor to start searching for the father she never got the chance to know.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To counter that erasure, the film paints a portrait of Kashmir through the multiplying photographs Noor takes on her phone \u2013 her carefree <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/outdoors\/travel-tourists-india-hills\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tourist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gaze serving the documentarian in Kumar. The subjects of her photos shift suddenly from the innocuous to the damaging: Noor captures sunsets, locals ferrying tourists in Dal Lake, walls that scream \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/kashmir-india-pakistan-burhan-wani-protests-slogans-kashmir-conflict\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azaadi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, and 16-year-old Majid, covering half of his face and picking up a rifle to pretend as a militant. The latter shot \u2013 an outcome of Noor\u2019s desire to take a photo with a terrorist for her Facebook timeline \u2013 is followed by Majid being mercilessly thrashed by an officer. The fact that you can predict that Majid is destined to become a victim of the security forces on more than one occasion is revealing, given that the \u00a0assumption arises not from the film&#8217;s predictability, but from the familiar narrative of the violence in Kashmir. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet even with the tensions looming in the shadows that point to a cyclical way of life and loss, the strength of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fathers in Kashmir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0lies in digging out a quiet story of first love and heartbreak that feels rooted in the Valley\u2019s milieu: Noor and Majid fall for each other in the privacy of a cyber cafe where she introduces him to the wonders of the internet, he returns the favour by teaching her the difference between a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/china-masood-azhar-terrorist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">terrorist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d and \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/pulwama-attack-adil-ahmad-dar-terrorist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">militant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d and together they traverse the Valley\u2019s vastness to search for answers that are beyond them. Even their hesitant kiss is shot with a tender gaze, that juxtaposes light and darkness to invoke feeling, mirroring the pathos that seeps into the film\u2019s bittersweet last shot.<\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">But in No Fathers in Kashmir, the state is both a protagonist and an antagonist.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trouble then, is that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fathers in Kashmir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> partly suffers from its director&#8217;s simmering anger and his steadfast urgency to brandish his dissent: Kumar pops up in the movie as Arshid, a police informant who doubles up as an Islamic fanatic, sympathetic to the cause of the militants. A large part of the movie\u2019s puzzle rests on Arshid\u2019s character, which regrettably becomes its weakest track. Kumar\u2019s blank-faced performance is unable to muster up the angst, guilt, or even remorse to dig deep into the psyche of a man rendered delusional by the weight of unending conflict. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even worse, his presence, just like the restless camera\u2019s jerky movements, is distracting and remains far too preoccupied with making a statement: On a closer reading, the provocation indicates a brand of activism that does little justice to a feature film. It\u2019s why some of the detours that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fathers in Kashmir <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">takes don\u2019t add up, like Kumar painting the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/pulwama-attack-army-brats-national-security\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> security forces<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as excessively cartoonish or his evasive stance on Islam. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Fathers in Kashmir<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, just like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, makes a case for necessary viewing, especially with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/general-elections-2019-congress-aap-coalition-government\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">elections<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around the corner. At its heart, it poses one question that politicians are always prepared to shirk: Can India really develop without acknowledging the people of Kashmir and the damage that decades of violence has wreaked upon them? <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashvin Kumar\u2019s No Fathers in Kashmir, is a tender portrait of first love in the time of the Kashmir crisis. 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