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Never new I would meet such ignorant parents. Atleast 10 parents had brought their 2-8 year old kids to watch Kashmir files. The movie clearly has a 18+ A certificate. Not a 14UA.

Depressed

Honest Review.
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I was pleasantly surprised by how effective the movie was in conveying what it started out doing. I had a very low bar after Tashkent files.

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Some would take umbrage to the Loud direction at times. Personally I think that was @vivekagnihotri s choice and overall the Loudness has the desired effect.

#KashmirFiles Having seen more gory scenes in Visual medium and read more graphic details about Kashmir Pandit I did think the violence was NOT overdone though Loud at times. Rather some of the more ghastly things documented were not shown.

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@AnupamPKher shines. Among his finest performances.
I even liked Mithuns role.
Darshan Kumar also pulled through on a tough role (though with glitches).

#KashmirFiles but most importantly the movie does what only a movie can (not books or newspapers or even podcasts).

So it's a very necessary counter weight movie especially in company of Haider and Mission Kashmir

#KashmirFiles the criticism I had watching was the absence of positive Kashmiri Muslim characters who helped Pandits risking their lives (though the final monologue makes that point). Personally I think that's not fair. But Haider didn't have a single positive Pro India character

In that space #KashmirFiles corrects a lot of narrative around the Kashmir in general in Pop culture and also tells the stories of the Kashmiri Hindus with focus solely on their plight.

#KashmirFiles there are some small errors and unbelievable plot points.
I felt the #Article370 part is overplayed and made simplistic and dumbed down.

Ofcourse it's part of story so that's fine in a story

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Personally I felt the Amarnath killings should have also been part of the film. But @vivekagnihotri can't get it all inside the movie.

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JNU is naturally shown caricaturish - but frankly I care far more about Kashmiri Muslim caricature than JNU caricature.

Also don't think the bright minds of Azadi in JNU would be seed any space in one monologue :). But maybe that was wishful thinking by director

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Hopefully I will be able to write a medium size review over the weekend @omarali50 after celebrating Holi tomorrow

#KashmirFiles @vivekagnihotri has done something very subtly in the movie. The South Indian character is shown reading - the story of a civilization -- Indus to Vagai (if I am not mistaken). -- book often quoted as evidence of IVC - Tamil links.

#KashmirFiles I hope (unlikely) that @vivekagnihotri reads that some people have seen his hint at Aryan -Dravidian debate in the movie.
Maybe his next project will be on that topic ?

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