A L W A Y S U N D E R C O N S T R U C T I O N
(ALWAYS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY & REVIEWS HIGHLIGHTED>)
March 15, 2007
- Mukul Kesavan | Telegraph | Celebrating freedom: Jashn-e-Azadi and what Kashmiris think about the occupation
Just two days after the first screening at the Habitat Centre, this op-ed piece on the film appeared in the Kolkata newspaper
- Azera Rehman | IANS | Stories of grief and graveyards from Kashmir
A short and accurate review that was extensively reproduced in print and on the internet– including on a Bollywood Gossip site!
- Muhammad Junaid | Blue Kashmir | Jashn-e-azadi – a review
If you have read through the comments on the blog, J’s erudite polemic must surely have connected. Exciting as well as incisive.
March 18, 2007
- Jeebesh Bagchi | Sarai Reader-list | Reflections on Sanjay Kak’s Jashn-e-Azadi
Much before our Sarai Screening, these reflections threw a formidable challenge for the film and filmmakers: it can be read as a review, or as a text unravelling and decoding the possibilities and problems in the film. We know that this reaction has to be engaged with, but after three years of making the film, you do want to take a break for sometime from examining your intentions…
- Amit Bhan | Pioneer | Of graveyards and half truths
The Pioneer is edited and owned by Chandan Mitra, ideologue of the Hindu Right. The reaction to the film was not a surprise and a preview of how the nationalist/religious right wing will read the film!
March 22, 2007
- Vidhi Upadhyay | PTI | Celebrating freedom in a war zone
March 31, 2007
- Paramita Ghosh | Tehelka | Whose Azadi?
Not quite a review, but a “news-item”. Curiously, the piece referred to the ‘desperation of widows for livelihood’ which I did not remember from the film! Anyway, Tehelka made it up by a more detailed interview
April 1, 2007
- Showkat A Motta | Greater Kashmir | Domination does not mean victory
- Jeremy Seabrook | Statesman | Where bodybags speak
- Arshid Ahmed | Kashmir Uzma | Kashmir mein ‘Jashn-e-Azadi ‘
- Syed Basharat | Kashmir Times, Jammu | Sanjay Kak portrays true picture of Kashmir
April 4, 2007
- David Lepeska | Kashmir Observer | Film screening morphs into freedom celebration
- Amitava Kumar | Amitava Kumar’s Blog | How we celebrate freedom
April 5, 2007
- Inam ul Rahman | Greater Kashmir | Jashn-e-Azadi: We the slaves
This review has had a nice journey through the wringers of the Indian nationalist machine: Mr. Rahman, as a “citizen journalist” for the Meri News website, submitted the same review to it. The patriots at the site chewed it up to make the film seem like an Indian propaganda film. Read about the whole saga here.
April 12, 2007
- Ishfaq-ul Hassan | Dainik Bhaskar | Azadi ki nai awaz
- Ishfaq-ul Hassan | DNA | Meet this Kashmiri pandit, who speaks of azadi in the Valley
One thing that’s been bothering blogmistri is this Kashmiri Pandit Sanjay Kak thing… Will Sanjay forever be only a Pandit figure who decided to go beyond his ethnic/religious identity, or can we allow him other identities too? Like the man with beard – ‘Meet this Bearded man who speaks of azadi in the Valley’!
- Peerzada Arshad Hamid | Kashmirnews.rediffland blog | Jashn-e-Azadi!
April 13, 2007
- Farah Aziz | Intercontinental Cry | Jashn-e-Azadi : A review
April 15, 2007
- David Lepeska | Kashmir Observer | Documentary leaves Kashmir in the dark
Mr. Lepeska should have got a whole post to himself. But for now let’s just say that we are curious as to his continously changing view of the film: from his first evocative report (Apr 4); then an interview whose telegraphic sentences apparently owe much to the fact that Mr Lepeska wrote it from memory (Apr 15); and then this review. Did American Journalist meet up with Secret Kashmir? Little more research needed…
May 1, 2007
- Manglesh Dabral | Samyantar monthly | Swarg mein Aag aur Aansu
translated as In Paradise: Fire and Tears
May 11, 2007
- Riyaz-ul Haq | Prabhat Khabar, Patna | Kashmir ke liye Jashn-e-Azadi
May 13, 2007
- Tariq Bhat | The Week | Misery in pixels
Ashutosh | Nav Bihar, Patna | Tasvir bayan karta Jashn-e-Azadi
A Correspondent | Prabhat Khabar, Patna | Jashn-e-Azadi mein Kashmiriyon ka dard
May 28, 2007
- Patricia Mukhim | The Telegraph, Guwahati | When freedom is lost
June 1, 2007
- Roland Playle | Kashmir Affairs | Why We Are All Martyrs
June 1, 2007
- Jitendra Kumar & Himanshu Upadhyaya | Combat Law bi-monthly | Imaginary Homeland, Imagined Community
June 2, 2007
- Rouf Mustafa | Greater Kashmir | A propaganda mill which lives on lies
June 16, 2007
- Rouf Mustafa | Greater Kashmir | Capturing Truth
July, 2007
- Asma Yasrib | Yembarzal Issue 2 | Review
July 16, 2007
- Deccan Herald, Bangalore | Metrolife | Filming terror territory
July 20, 2007
- Ayesha Matthan | The Hindu, Bangalore | Friday Review | Fragmented notions
July 28, 2007
- Ayesha Matthan | The Hindu, Bangalore | Metroplus | Can we celebrate freedom?
August 18, 2007
- Shohini Ghosh | Tehelka | Freedom’s Marred Festival
August 24, 2007
- Dionne Bunsha | Tehelka | Freedom at stake
October 5, 2007
- Ananya Vajpeyi | Outlook online | Azadi: Theirs and Ours
another review to add to this list…
http://yembarzal.blogspot.com/2007/04/review.html