The situation in the Valley is stabilising, added impetus is required to revive the culture of cinema through the reopening of cinema halls which will ratify the normalcy in the valley
By and large Indian Army has achieved its aim on curbing the militancy and facilitating the smooth functioning of government machineries. Now, the government and its various departments needs to actively pitch into integrate the people, the center of gravity, with mainland India. One such dimension which can work wonders in bringing joy to the faces of the people of Kashmir is the reopening of cinema halls across Kashmir. Nothing can be more soothing to your eyes than watching Kashmiri families moving out intrepidly to cinema halls and enjoying a movie and having quality time with their loved ones. Recently, the government of J&K has taken the initiative to reopen the closed cinema halls in the valley.
The government is planning to revive the cinema halls that were closed for a long time. A generation has been deprived of the pleasure of watching movieson big screen owing to the absence of cinema halls which are quite common in other parts of country.It is very fascinating to apprehend sometimes, whether it is the cinema that are moulding the society or vice versa. It is easier to see our trouble, approaches, errors and fortes in films than it is to figure out by ourselves. It helps us to embrace the change when our ideologies and beliefs are logically challenged.
Cinema in valley has its own history. For its exquisite and picture beauty,Kashmir was always Bollywoodโs favourite spot as it has always painted the silver-screen with ideas of love, splendour and fascination. Many got attracted to the breathtaking beauty of Kashmir depicted on screen including Ratan Tata who got mesmerised by movieJ unglee (1961) to visit Kashmir along with 17 of his college friends. Betaab, a 1980 movie, was shot in a valley in Pahalgam which later named on the film as the Betaab Valley.
In 1989, amongst rising wave of armed…