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| Zero Bridge: Film on Kashmir to be showcased in LA | | | Early Times report
Srinagar, May 14 : `Zero Bridge’, a film on Kashmir is all set to be screened, this year, in the prestigious Los Angles Los Angeles Film Festival, which runs from June 18 to June 28, every year.
The authorities managing the event announced its lineup for its annual celebration of cinema. As per the reports, "Zero Bridge," an Indian American production about a pickpocket in Kashmir directed by Tariq Tapa will be competing in the narrative competition with Inuit high school film "Dear Lemon Lima" directed by Suzi Yoonessi, as well as "Harmony & Me" by Bob Byington, "Hollywood, je t'aime" by Jason Bushman, "Passenger Side" by Matt Bissonnette, "Turistas" by Alicia Scherson, "Wah Do Dem" (What They Do) by Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace.
Zero Bridge, is the only Indian film participating at the festival this year, and the first feature film by Tariq Tapa, born in New York and until now, involved in the production of a series of interesting short films.
Entirely shot in Kashmir the movie depicts the lives of two adolescents that seek different and more stimulating venues than the unsatisfying reality that surrounds them. The protagonist is Dilawar, a young Kashmiri that likes studying and would love to continue attending school, but due to economic difficulties, is forced to work with his uncle’s crew as apprentice mason. Due to this and the meanness of his uncle Muhammad Ali, the protagonist cultivates a sense of dissatisfaction that leads him to assort with shady characters and pick passengers’ pockets in the city markets, while secretly planning his escape.
After two attempts he realizes how confined men actually are and how hard it is to expand one’s horizon further than the own backyard. The only one that seems to have understood this is the young and charming Bani. She has been in the U.S. where she studied physics and discovered a world that is different from the one in which she is forced to live.
The prescribed role of the woman does not fit to her ideals, such as the fact that she must marry someone her mother has chosen. But how can one break the borders that society raises, how can one change his own life?
“Zero Bridge” tells the story of a different world, far away from the colorful lights of Bollywood. It depicts reality neglecting the romantic means and the typical ideologies of western societies.
The film starts with a picture of the “Zero Bridge”, homage to the director’s family; prior to the 1989 war, he always used to play with his cousins on his grandmother’s houseboat on the Jhelum River exactly under this bridge.
In this case the bridge turns into the symbol of freedom, and crossing it represents the only possibility to reach new venues. Not by chance, the protagonist starts his career as thief exactly there, on that bridge that unconsciously represents the only possible way of escaping from this reality he hates so much.
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