Dev Trivedi

The Kashmir Files, an amazing cinematic portrayal offering a glimpse to the Kashmir genocide. It’s not a documentary but a conversation starter. The movie is soul wrenching and admittedly difficult to watch but this is the least one can do for the cause of the Kashmiri Hindus and meanwhile minutely absolve ourselves from our complacency, disinterest and lack of action too. If one has seen Schindler’s List, there is no reason one should not watch this.

From "Underneath the Mango tree", to "No time to die", this movie is a culmination of ticking the boxes for a very specific set of audience, or shall I say, opinion passers who decide what all a movie should have and what it should not. Watching this movie can have a serious affect on one's psychology as it is inert, grim and bereft of any sense of earthiness. Blofeld gets bumped off as if he was a fly and the institution of what James Bond blasted in smithereens. It is hard to believe that they killed James Bond. I am now contended that the greats like Sean Connery and Roger Moore are no longer with us to see the debacle of what they created. This movie is also some a mirror of the contemporary times some societies are living in: Sense of hopelessness, normalization of lifelessness, pointless rage and anger, perpetual anguish. When 'songs' like "No time to die" become a chartbuster, there is a deep level of instability in the minds of people at large. From "Never say never again" to "Never again"!