(this was also run by IANS)
"Pallavi Joshi plays an intellectual professor and a great motivator. She is suave, throws around her one-liners carefully, waxing eloquently. The impact is huge. The youngsters adore her. Only at the fag end of the film does she talk about her real intent -- "the battle of narratives" she has to win.
......One video has gone viral showing similarities between the reel-life 'Radhika Menon' and a real-life Ms Menon. Some would definitely call all this propaganda".
Some dialogues in the film 'The Kashmir Files' are worth pondering over.
The protagonist, a journalist, tells a former top cop: "You were given the Padma Shri so that you remain silent."
The retired police officer -- utterly frustrated of course -- shoots back: "When we the police have to arrest or take action against a big terrorist or a criminal, you know first we try to find who is the keep (the Hindi word used is 'rakhel') of that criminal. Do you know, who these keeps are: these media people."
I was in an Old Delhi cinema watching the movie with my teenage daughter. She laughed out. I also made some noise apparently. Did I like the statement?
Someone who joined journalism with a commitment to the 'ism' -- mind you, in my age it was not fashionable and your dad would not proudly tell his colleagues and neighbours that his eldest son is a journalist.
Pallavi Joshi plays an intellectual professor and a great motivator. She is suave, throws around her one-liners carefully, waxing eloquently. The impact is huge. The youngsters adore her. Only at the fag end of the film does she talk about her real intent -- "the battle of narratives" she has to win.
She uses a Kashmiri Pandit as an ultimate pawn. She convinces him that every story -- or electoral journey -- needs a villain and that villain should be the 'state' or the Government of India.
The young man discovers that she was photographed with a terrorist in a joyful mood -- holding hands. And the photograph is preserved with utmost love and respect in the terrorist's den. The Left-liberal lobby is 'exposed'.
Here is the big and basic problem with the film. Hence, Bollywood could not back it unanimously.
One video has gone viral showing similarities between the reel-life 'Radhika Menon' and a real-life Ms Menon. Some would definitely call all this propaganda.
Pallavi and Darshan |
Good Narative on similar issues NE and Kashmir
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