Yahaan

There is something about Kashmir - at rest or unrest, the virgin white slopes of Iqbaal's musings have never been able to do without a love story. At least in Hindi cinemadom. For the first 40 years after independence, the Valley served as a heaven for cinematographers to shoot their yahoo-tooting heroes, while the past decade spawned its own culture of K-movies with fire-spewing Sunny-Deol-fighting Pakistani desperados.

Amid the patriotic baloney, there have been a few movies like Maachis and Roja, which have given the insiders' story of the ground realities and the dynamics of....