Films from paradise on earth

Updated On: 30 May, 2013 01:50 AM IST | | Kanika Sharma

This Friday, Films Division will be hosting a three-day Kashmir Festival curated by filmmakers Pankaj Rishi Kumar and Ajay Raina, offering a kaleidoscopic view on the conflicted paradise on earth

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As films have become a powerful medium in this century, it’s time to acknowledge their potency to make a difference. Starting tomorrow, witness landmark films that canvas the conflicted Kashmir issue since Independence to the present time. Archival gems such as Storm over Kashmir made by BD Garga, a remarkable film historian and documentary filmmaker who captured the strife between India and Pakistan in 1947 over the Kashmir issue in the said film, will inaugurate the festival.

Actor Reza Naji in Aamir Bashir’s Harud