Jashn-e-Azadi [How we celebrate freedom] - part 1
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138 mins / Digital Video
Kashmiri/Urdu/English (English subtitles)
written and directed by sanjay kak
photography ranjan palit
edited by tarun bhartiya
It’s 15th August, India’s Independence day, and the Indian flag ritually goes up at Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir. The normally bustling square is eerily empty- a handful of soldiers on parade, some more guarding them, and except for the attendant media crews, no Kashmiris.
For more than a decade, such sullen acts of protest have marked 15th August in Kashmir, and this is the point from where Jashn-e-Azadi begins to explore the many meanings of Freedom-of Azadi-in Kashmir.
In India, the real contours of the conflict in Kashmir are invariably buried under the facile depiction of an innocent population, trapped between the Terrorist’s Gun and the Army’s Boot. But after 18 years of a bloody armed struggle, after 60,000 civilians dead (and almost 7,000 enforced disappearances), what really is contained in the sentiment for Azadi-for freedom?
Amidst the everyday violence and ever-present fear in Kashmir, there are no easy answers to such questions. Where truth has been an early victim, all language-speech, poetry, even cinema-becomes inadequate to describe what we know and feel here.
So we reshape our curiousity, and point ourselves at what we can see, what we are allowed to see. The film then combines several forms and modes of expression to evoke the past as well as unravel the present:
We are witness to an ageing father in the Martyr’s Graveyard; we are with a group of men as they survey the dead in the mountain villages of Bandipora; we sit quietly in the Out Patients Ward of the Govt Psychiatric Hospital in Srinagar.
But we look elsewhere too, in the satirical farce of Bhand folk performers as they play in a village square; in the tense undercurrents of an Army Sadhbhavna (Goodwill) camp in north Kashmir; and in the images conjured up by the work of contemporary Kashmiri poets.
Shot and edited between August 2004-2007 Jashn-e-Azadi engages us with the idea of Azadi in Kashmir.
In 2007, as India celebrated it’s 60th anniversary of Independence, this is also a conversation about Freedom in India.
Пікірлер: 99
Amazing documentary. Always in solidarity with the people of Kashmir.
right time 👍
Fun fact this is made by a kashmiri pandit.
It is a painful documentary. We r with kashmiris
sooner or later Kashmir has to be free
@bicentinialman
4 жыл бұрын
keep dreaming
@justamoteofdust
3 жыл бұрын
@@bicentinialman that's what Britishers said a few decades ago to India as well and then, rest is history. Don't underestimate the power of people man! NEVER!!!
@bicentinialman
3 жыл бұрын
@@justamoteofdust apply the same logic to Balochistan!
@justamoteofdust
3 жыл бұрын
@@bicentinialman and what makes you think I don't in the first place?! 🤔
@ashokchaudhary3988
2 жыл бұрын
@@justamoteofdust so according to you india must loosing land for Islamist to fulfill there dream? They want to create islamic country out of kashmir and u are supporting them?
Palestinians of India
To some extent,free from deception.Good work
The only solution is a fair plebiscite in both sides.
@chaoticdays
Жыл бұрын
Elections happen regularly in Kashmir, we don't need the opinion of outsiders. Jai Hind 🇮🇳
Respect to Kashmiris who are resisting #HindutvaTerrorism from decades #freeKashmir
@sanidhyasingh1241
3 жыл бұрын
And what about the Kashmiri Pandits, or you don't think they exist? The reason we are seeing this "oppression" in the first place is because of massacre of the Pandits by Muslims in the first place
@mardstark4280
3 жыл бұрын
@@sanidhyasingh1241 approximately 5% of Kashmiri population you're forgetting about 95% muslim population that wants freedom from India! Kashmir hates india!
@sanidhyasingh1241
3 жыл бұрын
@@mardstark4280 Well the Kashmir that was taken over certainly does. And we all know who took over it, so no point in denying that. It wasn't 5%, it was MADE 5%
@usmannaeem4164
Жыл бұрын
@@sanidhyasingh1241 this documentary was made by a Kashmiri Pandit lmao
@sanidhyasingh1241
Жыл бұрын
@@usmannaeem4164 And so? That doesn't really change things much. Is that supposed to say that you define whether things are right or wrong based on identity of a person who made it? Wow that's definitely not prejudiced.
Kashmir, the land of sage Kashyap, will always belong to India. Now that it has been fully integrated with the rest of the country with the scrapping of Article 370, it's just a matter of time before PoK also gets integrated with 🇮🇳. Jai Hind !
@usmannaeem4164
Жыл бұрын
avg Bhakt's logic to relate Kashmir with religion
@avnishpanwar9502
11 ай бұрын
you are a traitor if you think Article 370 was a hurdle in the full integration of Kashmir in India. Kashmir was fully integrated in 1947 itself. There was no lacuna but only in your andbhakt mind.
@usmannaeem4164
11 ай бұрын
@@avnishpanwar9502 I'm not a traitor and Pakistan doesn't represent me write it down I'm a Kashmiri
@usmannaeem4164
11 ай бұрын
@@avnishpanwar9502 as if the accession was done with consent of Kashmiri people
@chaoticdays
11 ай бұрын
@@usmannaeem4164 Kashmiri people are enjoying prosperity and freedom now that they have been freed from the clutches of terrorism and Paki supporting politicians such as Abdullah. The huge turnout of locals to celebrate Independence Day yesterday in Srinagar is a clear indication. Tourists are pouring into Kashmir like never before and the locals are extremely happy as I have experienced it first hand when I visited Kashmir last month.
Factual inaccuracies from the first minute....since the first parliament and democratic govt in Kashmir was instituted by the then monarch, who was a subject of the British.
@uvg319
3 ай бұрын
@maleehakhan6 says the average "Indian" anti national.... 🤣. Hari Singh provisioned for a democratically elected prime minister and parliament.
@uvg319
2 ай бұрын
@maleehakhan6the dogras just inherited it quite conveniently from the sultanate and Mughals. Not their invention. But Hari Singh tried to change this 'begar' labor situation. Meanwhile 'Muslims in Kashmir' are quite happy keeping bonded Nepalese and dalit laborers in their employ today. How democratic...really amazing no?
@uvg319
2 ай бұрын
@maleehakhan6 the dogra kings were part of the sikh empire too. And bonded labor was institutionalised under the Afghans, Mughals and Sultanate....
@uvg319
2 ай бұрын
@maleehakhan6 he protected his subjects from imams and mullas who were hellbent on wiping out kaffir populations. Kudos to him.
@uvg319
2 ай бұрын
@maleehakhan6 pandits...they fleed to Delhi in 1990. Now maybe it's time Pakistanis went back to Pakistan and Indians remained in India....POK included.
People of kashmir shouldn't go through this so called "Martyr"s politics and emotional black mail by Pakistani agent Yasin Malik. It's only in India that he can still live and fume venom against Indian establishment. This movie shows how innocent young kashmiris are misguided by these paid Devils(Hurriyat) of Pakistan. God bless Kashmiris and their land. Jai Hind.
Salo Tum toh kabhi Khuda ko Bhartiye Mantey nahi, aur Kashmir ke baat kartey ho pura Kashmir Bharat ka hai
Kashmir india ka tha aur rahega
@changetheworld2634
5 жыл бұрын
Kashmir Kia tumhara India tumhara apna nai rahy ga 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
@kiranghosh2667
5 жыл бұрын
@@changetheworld2634 Lo ho gaya kashmir humara, Kya Kar Lia tum logo ne🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
@courageofmedia
Жыл бұрын
Never and never
@pawantiwari6104
Жыл бұрын
@@changetheworld2634 bhai ab tu tumhara Pakistan tootne ki kagaar pr h
@user-bj5iv3tz8l
25 күн бұрын
@@changetheworld2634Tera pakistan bhi India ki den hai jihadi or yeh sapna Tera kashmir lene ka sapna he rhega
Kashmir from the eyes of Islamo-Leftist. First they changed the demography of kashmir, now they have brought rohingya muslims on jammu area. As Islamo-leftist always defend muzlims in name of minority, so hindus, sikhs, buddhist are minority who want to live with India. They forget, Jammu, kashmir & Laddakh are divided between India, Pakistan and China, So forget Referendum. I dont understand, If they want to become pakistani, why they dont just go to pakistan from border, they already go for training, maybe pakistan dont want kashmiri people, they just want kashmiri land.
@Verylastchangs_older_brother
2 ай бұрын
@maleehakhan6 read about mirpur massacre. jammu still has muslim poulation . what about hindus/sikhs in mirpur? and jammu massaccre was partition violence (not that i justify it) read about the context the sialkot massacre of hindus,sikhs. they came to jammu and they were doing that
@Verylastchangs_older_brother
2 ай бұрын
@maleehakhan6i agree. I am a half 2 nd gen kp. I sympathize with u. Honestly I am also in dillema . My mum never talked very much about it. So i myself tried to go look in history. I always knew there were 2 sides but its hard to know. Independent kashmir will be the only better option out of all
@PrakashBesra
26 күн бұрын
@maleehakhan6So you mean Mohammed piglet(pbuh) was born in Kashmir or Pislam directly migrated from Saudi to Kashmir ? Or kashmir was an empty land , no native population? Can you please clear views on this? It's confusing you know.
@PrakashBesra
26 күн бұрын
@maleehakhan6 care to answer my questionS? Pretty sure, new jersey population doesn't have the ambition of freedom from usa, but that's different things.
@PrakashBesra
26 күн бұрын
@maleehakhan6 and you clearly lack attention to details questions. Go back to nursery school to hone your skills. I have already asked questions in the first comment.
biased in favor of pakistan, islamic viewpoint.
@pawankorotania.
5 жыл бұрын
Looks like sanjay kak is not a muslim but likely hindu
@lemonade50
4 жыл бұрын
@@pawankorotania. he is far left. So you know what that means
@justamoteofdust
3 жыл бұрын
@@lemonade50 it means not being a fascist.
@lemonade50
3 жыл бұрын
@@justamoteofdust and its alright to be a communist? How much have people suffered in communist and former communist states? Leftists rarely talk about that. They just go on and on about nazi Germany and fascist Italy or hindutva. They are blind when it comes to the wrongs of their ideology.
@justamoteofdust
3 жыл бұрын
@@lemonade50 which country do you think has been communist?! Which country has since _The October Revolution of 1917,_ been a stateless, classless country? Point me to just one such country! Then we can talk about communism because that's what communism is: a classless, stateless, private-property-less society. There is a difference between socialism and communism; all the countries have been only socialists hitherto. I.e., they have only been successful in implementing the transitionary stage to communism to a certain extent. Just wanted to clear that important distinction before we can talk further here. Now you talk about the suffering of the people in those socialist countries right? Ok, which country you wanna talk about first where people suffered? And mind you, only reply if you're willing to have a rational, logical and evidence-based conversation here! Because I certainly don't have time for emotionally-charged propaganda and bourgeois lies.