Gaurav Giri

Broken souls don't speak... they must be heard! Five lakh Kashmiri Pandits had to leave everything behind in 1990 when Kashmir echoed under the announcements of Ralive, Tsaliv, Galive (Convert to Islam, leave the place or die?) The Kashmir Files is a hard-hitting and remarkable film that tells the brutally honest and unfiltered truth about the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus. The endless tales of human suffering and torture must be watched by every Indian. The storyline is simple and engrossing, it is the unvarnished truth and shows exactly what happened to the Kashmiri Pandits and the fate they met at the hands of Islamic terrorists. The film has power-packed performances by all actors. The story revolves around Pushker Nath Pandit played impressively by Anupam Kher. Anupam Kher puts his soul into his performance and this one is of the finest performance of his career. Other impressive performances came from Mithun Chakraborty, Darshan Kumar, Bhasha Sumbli, and Chinmay Mandlekar. All other supporting casts have played their roles effectively. The film is engaging and has some heart-wrenching and disturbing visuals that will stay with you forever. There's a scene where a telecom engineer gets brutally shot multiple times as he hides in a rice barrel. His wife is force-fed rice soaked in her husband's blood. In another scene, an alive woman was cut apart into pieces by the sharp saw, right from the middle of her body. Director Vivek Agnihotri recreates the massacre at Nadimarg village near Shopian in Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, Hindus are shot at point-blank range one by one. 24 Hindus were killed on that fateful 2003 night when terrorists came calling, dressed in Army fatigues. When one of the terrorists says "Ye karnawun chupe" (silence the baby) and an infant is shot. There was pin-drop silence in the theater after the climax scenes.