Kashmir used to have about 15 movie theaters — all of them were forced to close their doors. Some of them became malls; others became hospitals.

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 ...

Feroz Ahmad, a 52-year-old Kashmiri movie buff, tells Scroll.in’s Safwat Zargar that Kashmir’s love for movies was a “craze.” “[W]e would save money for days to buy a ticket,” Ahmad says.

The Kashmir Valley boasted some 15 movie theaters until 1989, when militants opposed to Indian rule in the region demanded their closure. All were shut down on January 1, 1990.

There was a time when Kashmir was mad about movies. The first-ever cinema hall in the Valley, Palladium Talkies, was built in 1932 in Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar.

An indie filmmaker seeks to challenge Bollywood narrative on Kashmir - Arfat Sheikh became increasingly frustrated by mainstream movies’ representation of Kashmir and its people – so he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...