There was just one petrol pump (in Spiti valley where the film was shot) – we had seven cars and two trucks and a cast and crew of 40 people (who were staying in camping tents that later got flooded) looking at me for directions at every step.
), Road to Ladakh follows the surreal rites of passage encounter between a dysfunctional, coke-snorting fashion model and an ultra-focussed, strong-silent stranger who are thrown together by chance.
[citation needed] Road To Ladakh was set near the borders of India and Pakistan, and employed a multi-national European crew.
[7] The film was based upon a real-life incident in the year 2000, where a young goatherd crossed the Indian-Pakistan border and was subsequently imprisoned by the Indian police.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India, freed the boy as a peace gesture intended to improve Indian-Pakistan relations.
[citation needed] In the film, a 12-year-old Pakistani boy named Jamal mistakenly crosses the border into Indian territory while attempting to retrieve a cricket ball.
[9] The story is set near the Gujarat border between India and Pakistan, but the film was made in five days in a village outside Jaipur in Rajasthan.
[13] The Forest was loosely based upon the writings and exploits of Jim Corbett and uses the tale of a man-eating leopard to address environmental concerns.
[citation needed] The plot concerns a married couple who arrive at a wildlife sanctuary in the Kumaon Hills to attempt to mend a faltering marriage.
While the husband and lover quarrel, a man-eating leopard is on the prowl, and both men must unite in order to outwit the predator and survive the night.
Kumar sings the Doon School song "Lap Pe Aati Hai" in the soundtrack as well as Howly is Krishna which was improvised during a music recording session in Goa.
[citation needed] Kumar and his crew spent several months on the campus making the film in a consultative and participatory process that included both teachers and students.
When he left his home in Kashmir to join the training camps in Pakistan in the early 1990s, his son Basharat was barely two months old.
A series of counterpointed testimonies, the heartbreaking coming-of-age of ordinary people; warped and brutalised by two decades of militancy and its terrible response.
A politician and her husband describe the horror of being kidnapped and in captivity for over a month – and despite that, forming a human bond with the militants, and helping them escape when the army closed in on them.
[citation needed] Disappearances and fake encounters led to the creation of mass graves, hidden away in sensitive border areas that civilians and journalists are not permitted to access in the name of national security.
Rape victims from Kunan Poshpora describe the trauma they went through at the hands of the army and the stigma that they still face due to the incident.
Militancy in Kashmir resulted in the Government of India deploying tens of thousands of armed troops in the region.
[27] Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter picked it up and the link had over a ten thousand hits in a week and generated curiosity and contempt alike.
No Fathers in Kashmir, previously Noor, is a story of hope and forgiveness told through the eyes of two teenagers experiencing first-love and heart break.
The Kickstarter platform provided funding for the film without being held to anyone else's agendas, or having to compromise the creative vision of the script.