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A teenage British Kashmiri, Noor, retraces her roots in search of her father with Majid, a local Kashmiri boy. The love-struck teenagers, in their search, uncover the hidden secrets of the lost fathers of Kashmir.
Critic Consensus
Critical reception for No Fathers in Kashmir is mixed, with reviewers acknowledging its relevance and willingness to engage with an underrepresented subject — the plight of half-widows and half-orphans in the Kashmir conflict. Critics appreciated that the film offers a dissenting perspective and uses a coming-of-age framework to make the conflict accessible to unfamiliar audiences. However, several reviewers felt the execution fell short of the film's ambitions, with complaints of muddled storytelling and an inability to fully balance humaneness with political urgency, resulting in what some called on-the-nose activist filmmaking.
4 rated reviews · 2 positive · 2 mixed
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“A fresh entrant helps No Fathers In Kashmir to ask questions in order to make the film relevant to audiences unfamiliar with the conflict.”Read full review ↗
“This film is not a light watch – it's a poignant tale that leaves you thinking about the half-widows and half-orphans, and many such untold stories.”Read full review ↗
“Kumar tells his story through a coming-of-age story between two teens — Noor (Zara Webb) and Majid (Shivam Raina) — in an atmosphere of all-pervading gloom where even any semblance of hope becomes everyone's supreme aim.”Read full review ↗
“A Decent Kashmir Premise Undone By Its Desire To Be Heard...No Fathers In Kashmir is scripted smartly but the execution is a bit muddled, almost as if the director decides to compromise his awareness in favour of on-the-nose activist filmmaking”Read full review ↗
“In a cinema-scape cluttered with quasi-propaganda movies that unabashedly celebrate the military, 'No Fathers in Kashmir' offers a dissenting perspective.”Read full review ↗
“In trying to bring in humaneness and politics in equal measure on screen, Ashvin Kumar's film stops short of being a searing account of a tragedy”Read full review ↗
Cast & Crew
Cast
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda · Abdul Rashid
- Maya Sarao · Parvena
- Soni Razdan · Halima
- Anshuman Jha · Army major
- Ashvin Kumar
- Jean-Marc Selva
- Abhro Banerjee
Director
Screenplay
Cinematography
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Details
- Release Date
- 5 April 2019
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genre
- Drama
User Ratings & Reviews
1 rating · 1 with a written review
Community Reviews (1)
'No Fathers in Kashmir' is an unabashedly political film which creates tense surroundings and fills it with further, turbulent scriptwriting. These things do make it a very bold film. But the style of direction and tge cinematography of Kashmir are regressive and the performances by Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Shivam Raina are far from convincing, making it a contrived little feature where there is little to convince us.
