Opinion | Baramulla: Where Horror Meets The Haunting Truth Of Kashmiri Pandits |
The search of the female protagonist to uncover mysteries of her new home led her to a hidden door. As she opened the door, there was a room—a room full of memories and frames. She entered the room. Looking at the remnants which the room beheld, she was stunned. This scene with ‘Shiv Shankar Stotram’ (Kashmiri Bhajan) playing in the background is one of the most gut-wrenching scenes in Hindi cinema history.
Baramulla is a cinematic experience. The film encapsulates in itself the horrors of Bharatiya history. It is an edge-of-the-seat horror thriller. Very seldom does one watch the horror-thriller genre and complete the cinema with a sense of contentment. But Baramulla is definitely one to savour. It traverses the intricacies of history and renders a horror thriller that not only captures the emotions but also makes one ponder on the historical past that has been left untold. The makers of the cinema have done a tremendous job. Let’s understand this in more detail.
Baramulla, on the surface, is a cinema that traces the search of a police officer for missing children in Baramulla. The protagonist DSP Ridwaan Sayyed (played by Manav Kaul) is posted in Baramulla after the son of an ex-MLA is kidnapped. Soon, multiple children start disappearing, including DSP Ridwaan Sayyed’s own daughter. Another plot shows a group of terrorists planning to recruit and brainwash children for terrorism in Kashmir. It so happens that the missing children,........