WRAL

Movie theaters reopen in Indian-controlled Kashmir for the first time in more than two decades

Movie theaters in Indian-controlled Kashmir have reopened their doors, more than two decades after they were forced shut during an armed rebellion that saw multiple threats and attacks on crowded ...
Nasdaq

Controversial Kashmir movie praised by India's Modi is box office hit

A new low-budget Indian film focusing on the exodus of thousands of Hindus from disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir region has won accolades from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is proving a box office ...
NPR

Cinemas have reopened in Kashmir after 2 decades — but few moviegoers are showing up

SRINAGAR, India — Huge movie posters showing muscle-bound Indian action stars adorn the newly built Myoun INOX Cinema multiplex in southern Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir's largest city. Inside the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Movie Theaters Are Back in Kashmir. Is Anybody Watching?

Back in the 1980s, movie theaters were an integral part of daily life in Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian-administered region that lies north of India and east of Pakistan. According to historian Khalid ...
The Washington Post

I tried watching ‘The Kashmir Files.’ I left the theater to screams of ‘Go to Pakistan.’

A woman walks past a poster of the Bollywood movie "The Kashmir Files" inside a cinema in Mumbai on March 17. (Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters) The collective conscience of India is being altered beyond ...
NPR

After more than two decades, movie theaters reopen in Indian-controlled Kashmir

For the first time in two decades, movie theaters have reopened on the Indian side of Kashmir. That's a Himalayan region divided between India and Pakistan. Cinemas were forced shut there during a ...