Sikandar

Many of us live with only an inherited memory, or at most, a third-person account, of societal violence. Incidents of considerable magnitude, but which occurred to someone else, at another place, and maybe in another time. It is then, probably beyond our scope to imagine the degree of trauma that a constantly troubled society can inflict on its younger minds, through unrelenting bloodshed over several generations.

Sikandar, a self-proclaimed tribute to the children of Kashmir, is a step in that direction. It makes a few impressive statements when it shows us how easy it is for a kid....