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| June agitation strangled silver screen | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 21: Silver screen in Kashmir survived militant threats and entertained people till June 2010 after some cinema halls were thrown open in 1996-97 by Farooq Abdullah government to show to the world that normality had returned to the conflict torn state.
Broadway, one of the posh cinema halls of the town functioned for a brief period. Regal in the heart of the city was forced to close down on the very first day it resumed operations. Sunny Doel's Pyaar koi khel Nahi attracted a few hundred people. But when the show ended, a grenade was thrown on the viewers when they came out of the hall. Two succumbed. Scores sustained injuries. Regal was closed down for good. It was later purchased by the richest Kashmiri, Rashid Mir of the CIE. The erstwhile cinema hall now houses his office.
However, a cinema hall in the vicinity of the Civil Secretariat functioned smoothly and silently for all these years. But it could not survive last year's June agitation. The hall was closed down and with it ended the last hope of revival of the silver screen in Kashmir.
Surprisingly the cinema hall dared militant threats but could not resist public anger. The closure of the cinema hall speaks volumes about the intensity of the June agitation. This year, by and large remained peaceful but the owners did not dare to resume operations.
The city of Srinagar housed eight cinema halls which were forced to close down in 1990 when militancy commenced. |
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