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January 26, 2012 8:49 AM

Inshallah Kashmir: Living Terror is Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar's brand new documentary, which is banned in India, that provides the perspectives of people that rarely receive positive mainstream media attention.

Third link has a trailer for the full move contained in the first link.

posted by gman (5 comments total)

Kumar was able to get so much access because he was in Kashmir "officially" to make a much less political film, Insha'Allah Football, and did these candids on the side. Great project, and since there's not much in the way of internet blocking in India, I hope that people with internet access there will make this available as much as possible.
posted by Burhanistan at 8:59 AM on January 26 [1 favorite]

Oh, snap! Another great post from gman.
posted by KokuRyu at 9:27 AM on January 26 [1 favorite]

Huh. Well, this is a moment of unhappy learning. I hadn't known that Indian law permitted film-banning. Most democracies have fairly strong laws protecting freedom of speech.
posted by Mr. Excellent at 10:01 AM on January 26 [1 favorite]

I haven't heard of either of these documentaries - looking forward to checking them out.
posted by exhilaration at 12:01 PM on January 26

It's been a while since I've been to India, but they do have quite a few media censorship rule in particular with Kashmir related subjects. I remember picking up a Time magazine that had an article on Kashmir displaying the current boundries in Jammu/Kashmir occupied by Pakistan, India, and China and on the side was an ink stamp saying that this map was incorrect.
posted by roguewraith at 1:18 PM on January 26