‘LIMITED DAMAGE’: UPCOMING BOLLYWOOD FILM ANGERS KASHMIR PELLET GUN VICTIMS

How the Bollywood movie Chauhaan packages state violence as entertainment

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Judging by its trailer, the upcoming Bollywood movie Chauhaan looks set to turn the tragedy of Kashmir into another celebration of Indian state violence wrapped up in the language of patriotism. When Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Studios released the teaser for Chauhaan, an upcoming Bollywood film starring Ajay Devgn, it appeared to promise […]

‘LIMITED DAMAGE’: UPCOMING BOLLYWOOD FILM ANGERS KASHMIR PELLET GUN VICTIMS

Thu 09 July 2026: Rubina, mother of Irshad, a 15-year-old Kashmiri boy who was injured by pellets fired by Indian security forces, shows his x-ray, Srinagar, September 20, 2019 [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters] Makers of Chauhaan, an ‘action entertainer’, accused of mocking more than 1,000 Kashmiris partially or completely blinded by pellet shotguns. Feroz Aslam* sports an […]