The plight of the Kashmiri Pandit community, uprooted from its homeland three decades ago due to the rise of militancy in the Valley, has rarely, if ever, been delved into by Hindi cinema.
Shikara, veteran writer-director-producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s first Hindi film in well over a decade, fills the breach. It sees the intractable Kashmir situation and its long-term fallout through the eyes of a Pandit couple who have spent a large part of their life in a refugee camp.
The film has two newcomers, Sadia and Aadil Khan, both. . .
