[Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 64, Issue 42, Hypocracy at its best with double standards for all to see.!

Thu Nov 6 17:06:56 IST 2008

As I went thru the posts in this edition, the thoughts that came to my mind is wha, what sort of hypocrats we are in India and how we change our stands to suit the occassion of our faith, region and language, as seen by posts in the list.

  Here we have a dholakia, who made a film about the riots in Gujarath, about the parsi boy missing and about the parents, and made enough money along with sycophancy to be loyal to oldest party during the elction time of that state. But forgot totally about the riots in 1984 when the shawls were of different colour at that time when over 4000 innocents were killed merciless hate.? And those who led from the front to prove their loyalty to the dynasty were rewarded with posts of ministers and MPs in power.?

  From 1947 so many riots have taken place, every time, rioters are rewarded with tickets to be MLAs and MPs. But for  once, a Chief minister of a state acts without fear or favour, orders to shoot rioters irrespective of their faith, as figures show the death counts reflect, such a CM is shown as "communal" progeom co-ordinator, to nominate him as the genocide king, nero etc.? If any citizen talks about the ills in society, if it happens to be a hindu and he talks of ills in society, he is communal.! If any one ridicules, hurts the feelings of all others, be abusive about culture and traditions, he has to be non hindu, he is secular..? Ofcourse some with dubious ids do join them for their rozi roti and of being noticed, they are more secular than secular citizens. ?

  About Kashmir, the simple solution is throw out Congress from every where and its sycophants from the power , you will have peaceful nation, without divisive politics.A Gulam Nabi Azad, who had no business to "give" land to yathris, which was available all these years, gave land to cook favours in rest of India to gain hindu votes, but in the process created havoc in the Kashmir state. For the first time by back door adjustments with PDP, Congress came to power and this is what is its act of treason to the nation. As to military presence in kashmir, let the kashmiris decide once for all, as to do they want good governance or the bullets which they get from their separatists, in the process also cross fire from defence forces. No defence officer who has to be always on duty at kashmir would like to be in civil duties as in Kashmir, as basically it is law and order ossue which has to be dealt by the police and CRPF. This use of military in civil areas
 is positively wrong as this leads to poariation of defence forces also, but Congress wants exactly this.The very purpose of division of polity ably supported by few blacksheep in journalism is that, the minority, peace loving Sonia can rule the nation as of now, she is proxy governor, with lame ducks in cabinet, next will be autocratic dicatator  is the calculation of this lady, but Free India has time and again shown that ballots are stronger than bullets,Indira was shown her place in 1977, but after the show when able leadership did not emerge, again the nation gave her another chance ..

  Unfortunate issue is role of media and the visual media and its anchors who seem to have no liking for change, as they seem to hate all other political parties, in particular BJP. Let the polity decide as to who has to govern them, why this haste by few journalists of visual media to pamper and promote this dynastic rule.? If advani or BJP leadership is not suitable let the voters decide that, why should be the anchors deciding the role of other political parties.?.Recent times have shown the governance in all states in the same bad light, but these anchors were making dance and song item numbers only for NDA ruled states.? When 400 innocents were killed in 1984, the vatican had no role to advise, now for few acts of vandalism and pope has a big say ? Not that violence is not to be condemned, but why this selective amnesia. ? In Goa, the son of a minister rapes a german minor girl, he happens to be christian just as the vistim, and supported by
 Congress, this incident does not cause any unease to all human rights activists, womens rights body etc. ? Shamelss dual standards while talking about one segment of society and when it is the time for eceiving the bricks, faith comes in between.?

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:10:13 +0530
From: "Sanjay Kak" <kaksanjay at gmail.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] The Truth about Kashmir!
To: "Sarai Reader List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
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For those on the Reader-list who have been waiting with bated breath for the
truth about Kashmir, the moment may well be near.
Bollywood's A list is all set to bring out the unvarnished truth.
And they are giving it their best: Screen saver favourite Bipasha Basu will
play Islamist Asiya Andrabi.
Please read this story from the Srinagar based daily Rising Kashmir.
http://www.risingkashmir..com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8133

"Bipasha to play Asiya in Lamha"

Rising Kashmir News
Srinagar, Nov 4:

Claiming that Sanjay Dutt, Kunal Kapoor and Bipasha Basu have pro-Kashmir
sentiments, Bollywood Director Rahul Dholakia Wednesday said that the
glamorous Bipasha will play Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson Asiya Andrabi in
his film 'Lamha'.
Addressing media persons here, Dholakia said that his film is entirely
pro-Kashmir and it will depict the real aspirations of Kashmiri people.
"This is a love story woven with boundless void of agony which Kashmiri
people are facing for the past 61 years. Without the help of Kashmiri people
I cannot do justice with my film," he said.
Spewing his anger against the unbridled powers of troops, paramilitary
forces and police in Kashmir, Dholakia said: "I may be hated in India but I
will show how army, CRPF and police are unleashing reign of terror on
innocent Kashmiris."
He claimed that leading artists of the film Sanjay Dutt, Kunal Kapoor and
Bipasha Basu are pro-Kashmir who are keen to reflect the real aspirations of
Kashmiri people.
"Bipasha Basu will play the role of Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson. She she
is entirely pro-Kashmiri in the film," Dholakia said.
He said Lamha has a potential to clear all pre-conceived notions about
Kashmir as the film will realistically portray Kashmir to the audience
around the world.
"The two years of my research about Kashmir suggest that all the Bollywood
films about Kashmir are fakes. I want to break this tradition. That is why I
want to shoot this film here with stars like Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu,"
he added.
He revealed some scenes in his film wherein half-widows ask the Indian
troopers whereabouts of their husbands. "I have scenes like women holding
photos of their husbands who are missing since 17 years, common Kashmiris
being harassed by troops asking them to prove their identity and other
painful incidents which happen here everyday," Dholakia said. "There are
dialogues in the film where people say that if Aishwarya Rai sees moon or
not it makes breaking news for Indian media but in Kashmir the women who
have not seen their husbands since 17 years are not newsworthy."
Dholakia said that at the end of the day, a question will be asked to the
audience as to who should be held accountable for the ongoing tyranny in
Kashmir.
"When in a crackdown innocent Kashmiri girls are picked up and raped, no one
does anything about it. Indians have been made to believe that a Kashmiri is
a militant which is absolutely false, incorrect and ridiculous," he said.
Dholakia said he wants to convey that Kashmiris are most sensitive,
emotional and fine human beings who have been cheated year after year by
various governments.

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:58:18 +0530
From: "Wali Arifi" <waliarifi3 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The Truth about Kashmir!
To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
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Here is some more to add to this post:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20081105/914/ten-lamha-will-depict-kashmir-s-pain-say.html

'Lamha' will depict Kashmir's pain, says director Dholakia

Wed, Nov 5 07:29 PM

Srinagar, Nov 5 (IANS) Bollywood filmmaker Rahul Dholakia, Wednesday said
that his forthcoming movie 'Lamha' would depict the pain and suffering of
Kashmir even though it was essentially a love story.

'I will be hated outside after the release of 'Lamha'. It will depict
Kashmir's pain and suffering as I have seen during the two years of research
for my film," Dholakia told reporters here.

He said that his movie, which stars Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu and Anupam
Kher, would be a 'pro-Kashmir film'. The director added that he fully
understood the humiliation and the pain the locals suffered when
non-resident troopers asked them for identity proof.

"I have met a senior separatist leader and many people here and I have
assured them that my film will portray Kashmir in its true perspective.

"I have been to a village called Dardpora where hundreds of widows still
wait with photographs of their husbands and sons to return home. All that
will be there in my film," Dholakia said.

The shooting of Dholakia's film had run into rough weather here. Kashmiri
fruit traders last week intervened to stop the shooting at the fruit market
as they feared the movie might portray them in bad light.

On Monday, students of a college in south Kashmir's Anantnag district took
exception to some of the portions being shot inside the campus premises and
the principal then asked the film crew to withdraw.

On Wednesday too, the film's shoot was interrupted by a few people while
they were filming in uptown Maharaja Bazaar area.

Dholakia has earlier made the critically acclaimed film 'Parzania' about a
boy who went missing in the 2002 Gujarat communal violence.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/October/international_October2173.xml§ion=international&col
=
Kashmiri Fruit Traders Stop Movie Shoot
(IANS)

31 October 2008

SRINAGAR - Kashmiri fruit traders on Thursday intervened to stop the
shooting of director Rahul Dholakia's movie 'Lamha' in the states' summer
capital Srinagar fearing the film might portray them in a bad light.

"I was informed by my colleagues in the Parimpora fruit market that a film
unit had set up a shoot there today," Bashir Ahmad Bashir, the president of
the fruit market in Srinagar, told IANS.

"They were shooting some actor wearing a 'pheren' (traditional woollen
garment) wielding a gun during the shooting.

"I met the director, Dholakia, and asked him whether he had taken permission
from the local authorities and also from our association to shoot his film
inside the fruit market.

"After he failed to show us any permission, we politely told him to wind up
the shoot and they readily agreed to do so. We also requested them to delete
the parts of the film they had shot inside the fruit market today."

He also said their intervention had become necessary as the local traders
feared anything negative shown in a film about Kashmiri fruit traders would
affect the entire industry adversely.

Dholakia had earlier made the critically acclaimed film 'Parzania' about a
boy who went missing in the 2002 Gujarat communal violence.

When IANS contacted him about Thursday's incident, Dholakia said: "We had
sought permission from some shopkeepers in the fruit market for the shoot
who perhaps had not informed the office bearers of the fruit traders
association and that is why the hiccup occurred today." *-  IANS*

"Mine is a positive film about Kashmir and we are going ahead with the
shoot. These hiccups are part of filmmaking and I fully understand the
situation in Kashmir."

The director also said 'Lamha' was a love story. The film stars Sanjay Dutt
and Bipasha Basu.

"It is a commercial movie and there are no political overtones to it. Yes,
it talks of love in today's Kashmir," Dholakia told IANS here.

When asked about the pheren-wearing, weapon-wielding actor being part of the
shoot at the local fruit market, the director said: "He was a body guard and
not part of the actors in the film."

Fruit traders in the valley had suffered huge losses earlier this year as
the highway carrying their produce was blocked for days due to protests in
Jammu against cancellation of land for the Amarnath shrine board. -

Message: 4
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:29:05 +0530
From: "Pawan Durani" <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] FW: Attn: Ms Jabbar --Your editorial in HT
    dated    4th Nov 08
To: "S. Jabbar" <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
Cc: Sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>
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Hello Sonia,

Don't you consider it unethical to forward someones offline mail in a public
group ?

I am not arguing on merits of your article , but the ethics of cross mailing
and privacy in offline conversations.

Regards

Pawan Durani

On 11/6/08, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I thought I wrote an edit piece about alienation among Kashmiri youth and
> its roots .  The sub-editor decided it was about support for Article 370,
> and this gentleman, whom I don¹t have the pleasure of knowing, believes it
> was about Yasin Malik.
>
> Hmm... Wasn¹t someone saying something about Œyes, we can (change).¹  Oh to
> be in America today where one can speak of hope and justice with renewed
> belief instead of this sad, jaded place where the worst kind of cynicism
> rules, where we are completely inured to any one else¹s pain but our own.
>
>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: ashish zutshi <ashishzutshi at hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 04:45:19 +0000
> To: <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Attn: Ms Jabbar --Your editorial in HT dated 4th Nov 08
>
>
> Dear Ms. Jabbar,
>
> You have your own compulsions to support Yasin malik..
> I am sure you are being paid to write such kind of stuff.
>
> I promise to pay you a reasonable amount for  writing  our ( Kashmiri
> Migrants) side of the story.
>
> Yasin malik has killed air force personnel & many kashmiri pandits.
>
> Do you want Govt of India to formally confer bravery award to Yasin malik
> on
> 26/1/2009,( Republic day) along with other kids.
>
> Thanks
> Ashish Zutshi
>
>
>
>
>
> What's on the ramp today could be on the streets tomorrow. Keep up with
> trends on MSN Lifestyle  Try it! <http://lifestyle.in.msn.com/>
>
> ------ End of Forwarded Message
>
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:15:28 +0530
From: "S. Jabbar" <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ReaderDEFANGED.11>
---------------------------------------

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Sanjay Kak <kaksanjay at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those on the Reader-list who have been waiting with bated breath for
> the
> truth about Kashmir, the moment may well be near.
> Bollywood's A list is all set to bring out the unvarnished truth.
> And they are giving it their best: Screen saver favourite Bipasha Basu will
> play Islamist Asiya Andrabi..
> Please read this story from the Srinagar based daily Rising Kashmir.
> http://www.risingkashmir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8133
>
> "Bipasha to play Asiya in Lamha"
>
> Rising Kashmir News
> Srinagar, Nov 4:
>
> Claiming that Sanjay Dutt, Kunal Kapoor and Bipasha Basu have pro-Kashmir
> sentiments, Bollywood Director Rahul Dholakia Wednesday said that the
> glamorous Bipasha will play Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson Asiya Andrabi in
> his film 'Lamha'.
> Addressing media persons here, Dholakia said that his film is entirely
> pro-Kashmir and it will depict the real aspirations of Kashmiri people.
> "This is a love story woven with boundless void of agony which Kashmiri
> people are facing for the past 61 years. Without the help of Kashmiri
> people
> I cannot do justice with my film," he said.
> Spewing his anger against the unbridled powers of troops, paramilitary
> forces and police in Kashmir, Dholakia said: "I may be hated in India but I
> will show how army, CRPF and police are unleashing reign of terror on
> innocent Kashmiris."
> He claimed that leading artists of the film Sanjay Dutt, Kunal Kapoor and
> Bipasha Basu are pro-Kashmir who are keen to reflect the real aspirations
> of
> Kashmiri people.
> "Bipasha Basu will play the role of Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson. She she
> is entirely pro-Kashmiri in the film," Dholakia said.
> He said Lamha has a potential to clear all pre-conceived notions about
> Kashmir as the film will realistically portray Kashmir to the audience
> around the world.
> "The two years of my research about Kashmir suggest that all the Bollywood
> films about Kashmir are fakes. I want to break this tradition. That is why
> I
> want to shoot this film here with stars like Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu,"
> he added.
> He revealed some scenes in his film wherein half-widows ask the Indian
> troopers whereabouts of their husbands. "I have scenes like women holding
> photos of their husbands who are missing since 17 years, common Kashmiris
> being harassed by troops asking them to prove their identity and other
> painful incidents which happen here everyday," Dholakia said. "There are
> dialogues in the film where people say that if Aishwarya Rai sees moon or
> not it makes breaking news for Indian media but in Kashmir the women who
> have not seen their husbands since 17 years are not newsworthy."
> Dholakia said that at the end of the day, a question will be asked to the
> audience as to who should be held accountable for the ongoing tyranny in
> Kashmir.
> "When in a crackdown innocent Kashmiri girls are picked up and raped, no
> one
> does anything about it. Indians have been made to believe that a Kashmiri
> is
> a militant which is absolutely false, incorrect and ridiculous," he said.
> Dholakia said he wants to convey that Kashmiris are most sensitive,
> emotional and fine human beings who have been cheated year after year by
> various governments.
> _________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:33:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] FW: Attn: Ms Jabbar --Your editorial in HT
    dated    4th Nov 08
To: Sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>
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For those interested in reading it, here is the subject piece:

HINDUSTAN TIMES

Sonia Jabbar

November 04, 2008

"Not special, but equal"

A couple of weeks ago I stood by a bed in the ICU of a Srinagar hospital. Sixteen-year-old Zeeshan Puruzgar’s chest heaved like bellows.  He had been shot through the liver the day before, at point blank range, by the Central Reserve Police Force during a demonstration. A few hours later I visited 14-year-old Waseem Ahmad Wani at another hospital.  Half his face was swathed in bandages where the tear gas shell had hit him directly, smashing his mandible. “We fire warning shots and they still keep coming,” a senior police officer confessed later. “We’ve tried everything: tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, but nothing stops them."

Is the announcement of elections by the Centre a clumsy attempt to calm this rage? This was done by steam-rolling the advice of all mainstream political parties which strongly felt a hiatus was necessary for a population traumatised by the events of this summer. While no one denies the desirability of a stable, elected government, the violence witnessed in Kashmir between June and October should have made policy makers pause and reflect. If elections are the answer, why is it that after 12 years of uninterrupted ‘normalcy’ Kashmir erupted in the way that it did, and why have popular governments been unable to address Kashmiri anger and alienation?

Dodging brickbats and tear gas shells in downtown Srinagar near the Jamia Masjid, I attempted to understand what is fuelling this rage long after the Amarnath fracas was over. Sheltering from the police in the narrow lanes I discovered that each of the angry young boys, aged 11 to 17, went to school regularly, and the young men in their 20s were either undergraduates or studying for their MBAs, or shop owners. One even worked for a prestigious non-governmental organisation. This was hardly the expected profile of a stone-pelting mob. In Kashmir this represents a broader phenomenon that is yet to be understood.

According to the 2001 Census, of the Valley’s 5.4 million population, 71 per cent is under the age of 35 years; and of this 3.8 million people, 74 per cent are educated. In other words, the overwhelming majority of the population either cannot remember or has never experienced the time before war. It is the educated youth who rightly question why it is that notwithstanding prime ministerial promises of insaniyat or ‘zero tolerance towards human rights violations’, the highest authority of democratic India could not prevent the 2007 Ganderbal fake encounter, or that during the 2008 Amarnath agitation, how is it that only three people were killed in police firing in Jammu, despite rampaging mobs lynching policemen, while 57 Kashmiris were shot dead for stone-pelting during the same period? 

Every Kashmiri household has a story which ranges from enforced disappearances, rape and torture to more quotidian humiliations, like security forces ransacking your home in the middle of the night, a jawan cross-examining a judge at a checkpoint, a young boy being interrogated and slapped about on mere suspicion, and another being asked to prove his identity in his own neighbourhood by a uniformed outsider. For all India’s talk of democracy, in practice the Kashmiri youth observes daily the State’s intolerance of dissent. While Yasin Malik has been jailed under the draconian Public Safety Act for a peaceful demonstration against elections, Sajjad Lone — who had defied the ISI and supported the elections in 2002 — has found his Pakistani wife and two infant children repeatedly being denied entry into India.

The response to the collective memory of injustice cannot be the simulacrum of democracy. In the 12 years since the 1996 elections, levels of violence may have reduced, but that reduction is meaningless to the young man or woman who perceives State violence as arbitrary and justice as non-existent. Successive state governments, unable to attract investment and industry, have done little but dispense patronage in the form of government jobs to a select few. Kashmiris have missed out on the great Indian middleclass dream: J&K’s GDP is half of the national average and its per capita income of Rs 19,535 (2006-07) is Rs 10,000 less than the rest of India. An estimated 400,000 youth are unemployed, half of whom are college graduates who find themselves marginalised, unable to marry and provide for their families. It is this large population — angry and isolated — that runs the risk of being drawn into a new cycle of militancy.

What is the way out?  Discussions with the young stone-pelters yielded simple solutions. Each, without hesitation, said he wanted azadi, but when pressed to define it more precisely the overwhelming majority defined azadi to mean a demilitarised Kashmir. “You can’t expect a person to walk normally if his foot has a thorn lodged in it,” said the MBA student. “We want peace, but are humiliated daily by the security forces. The Centre says militancy is down, so why can’t troops go home? You people think you’ve given us Article 370 and that we should be thrilled, but we don’t need a special relationship, we want to be treated as equal citizens who can simply live and work in peace and dignity.”

Sonia Jabbar is an independent journalist

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=621b6ad1-5b06-458b-a394-3a556d013935

--- On Thu, 11/6/08, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:

From: S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] FW: Attn: Ms Jabbar --Your editorial in HT dated 4th Nov 08
To: "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:12 AM

Sorry, typo: Second sentence should read The sub-editor decided it was
about support to abolish Article 370...¹

I thought I wrote an edit piece about alienation among Kashmiri youth and
its roots .  The sub-editor decided it was about support for Article 370,
and this gentleman, whom I don¹t have the pleasure of knowing, believes it
was about Yasin Malik.

Hmm... Wasn¹t someone saying something about yes, we can (change).¹  Oh to
be in America today where one can speak of hope and justice with renewed
belief instead of this sad, jaded place where the worst kind of cynicism
rules, where we are completely inured to any one else¹s pain but our own.

------ Forwarded Message
From: ashish zutshi <ashishzutshi at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 04:45:19 +0000
To: <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>
Subject: Attn: Ms Jabbar --Your editorial in HT dated 4th Nov 08

Dear Ms. Jabbar,

You have your own compulsions to support Yasin malik.
I am sure you are being paid to write such kind of stuff.

I promise to pay you a reasonable amount for  writing  our ( Kashmiri
Migrants) side of the story.

Yasin malik has killed air force personnel & many kashmiri pandits.

Do you want Govt of India to formally confer bravery award to Yasin malik on
26/1/2009,( Republic day) along with other kids.

Thanks
Ashish Zutshi 

What's on the ramp today could be on the streets tomorrow. Keep up with
trends on MSN Lifestyle  Try it! <http://lifestyle.in.msn.com/>

------ End of Forwarded Message

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To: Sanjay Kak <kaksanjay at gmail.com>,    Sarai <reader-list at sarai.net>
Message-ID: <C538BA90.3DDD%sonia.jabbar at gmail.com>

But if the film is to be authentic she WILL be covered from top to toe in a
black burqa, eyes peering out of thick spectacles.  What matter whether it's
Bips or Sanjay Dutt playing AA?

> From: Sanjay Kak <kaksanjay at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 13:10:13 +0530
> To: Sarai Reader List <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: [Reader-list] The Truth about Kashmir!
> 
> For those on the Reader-list who have been waiting with bated breath for
> the
truth about Kashmir, the moment may well be near.
Bollywood's A list is
> all set to bring out the unvarnished truth.
And they are giving it their best:
> Screen saver favourite Bipasha Basu will
play Islamist Asiya Andrabi.
Please
> read this story from the Srinagar based daily Rising
> Kashmir.
http://www.risingkashmir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&i
> d=8133

"Bipasha to play Asiya in Lamha"

Rising Kashmir News
Srinagar, Nov
> 4:

Claiming that Sanjay Dutt, Kunal Kapoor and Bipasha Basu have
> pro-Kashmir
sentiments, Bollywood Director Rahul Dholakia Wednesday said that
> the
glamorous Bipasha will play Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson Asiya Andrabi
> in
his film 'Lamha'.
Addressing media persons here, Dholakia said that his
> film is entirely
pro-Kashmir and it will depict the real aspirations of
> Kashmiri people.
"This is a love story woven with boundless void of agony
> which Kashmiri
people are facing for the past 61 years. Without the help of
> Kashmiri people
I cannot do justice with my film," he said.
Spewing his anger
> against the unbridled powers of troops, paramilitary
forces and police in
> Kashmir, Dholakia said: "I may be hated in India but I
will show how army,
> CRPF and police are unleashing reign of terror on
innocent Kashmiris."
He
> claimed that leading artists of the film Sanjay Dutt, Kunal Kapoor and
Bipasha
> Basu are pro-Kashmir who are keen to reflect the real aspirations of
Kashmiri
> people.
"Bipasha Basu will play the role of Dukhtaran-e-Millat chairperson.
> She she
is entirely pro-Kashmiri in the film," Dholakia said.
He said Lamha
> has a potential to clear all pre-conceived notions about
Kashmir as the film
> will realistically portray Kashmir to the audience
around the world.
"The two
> years of my research about Kashmir suggest that all the Bollywood
films about
> Kashmir are fakes. I want to break this tradition. That is why I
want to shoot
> this film here with stars like Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu,"
he added.
He
> revealed some scenes in his film wherein half-widows ask the Indian
troopers
> whereabouts of their husbands. "I have scenes like women holding
photos of
> their husbands who are missing since 17 years, common Kashmiris
being harassed
> by troops asking them to prove their identity and other
painful incidents
> which happen here everyday," Dholakia said. "There are
dialogues in the film
> where people say that if Aishwarya Rai sees moon or
not it makes breaking news
> for Indian media but in Kashmir the women who
have not seen their husbands
> since 17 years are not newsworthy."
Dholakia said that at the end of the day,
> a question will be asked to the
audience as to who should be held accountable
> for the ongoing tyranny in
Kashmir.
"When in a crackdown innocent Kashmiri
> girls are picked up and raped, no one
does anything about it. Indians have
> been made to believe that a Kashmiri is
a militant which is absolutely false,
> incorrect and ridiculous," he said.
Dholakia said he wants to convey that
> Kashmiris are most sensitive,
emotional and fine human beings who have been
> cheated year after year by
various
> governments..
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