The Tragedy of Kashmir: An Interpretation of Vishal Bhardwaj’s film Haider (2014) and Basharat Peer’s memoir Curfewed Night (2008)

IJSRP, Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2021 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]

The Tragedy of Kashmir: An Interpretation of Vishal Bhardwaj’s film Haider (2014) and Basharat Peer’s memoir Curfewed Night (2008)

Sanchari Basak, Ankita Ghosh

Abstract: Vishal Bhardwaj’s film Haider(2014) reproduces Shakespeare’s Hamlet amidst the insurgencies and civilian disappearances that affected the 1990s in Kashmir, a region over which India and Pakistan have fought since Partition in 1947. Basharat Peer, the screenwriter and the author of the book Curfewed Night (2008) transforms the tragedy of a single individual into the collective tragedy of an entire region. Unlike Bollywood traditional representations of Kashmir

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Sanchari Basak, Ankita Ghosh (2021); The Tragedy of Kashmir: An Interpretation of Vishal Bhardwaj’s film Haider (2014) and Basharat Peer’s memoir Curfewed Night (2008); International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP) 11(1) (ISSN: 2250-3153), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29322/IJSRP.11.01.2021.p10996