Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of young men who have disappeared, since the onset of the militant insurgency in Kashmir. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Pakistan,to become a militant, Rafiq returns home to an aimless existence. Until one day when he accidentally finds his brother's old camera.
Cinematography
Kashmir's fog and orchards shot like living elegy
Direction
Bashir's restraint lets absence scream
Acting
Bhat's hollowed-out stillness carries everything
Director
Aamir Bashir
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bashir, himself Kashmiri, was denied passport renewal by Indian authorities during production—art imitating life imitating art.
Reza Naji, who plays the father, is Iranian—Bashir cast him for his 'foreignness' to suggest generational displacement.
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