Freedom from Fear | movie | 1997 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

It is a filmmaker's odyssey in his trouble-torn homeland. The film symbolizes the narrator;s search for his past, presen | dG1fUHF3UmhVUDlQa00

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00:00My first day in Srinagar that year was a civilian curfew imposed by the militants.

00:10Deserted streets, empty roads, abandoned and burnt houses greeted me and my camera team

00:15everywhere we went.

00:20An engulfing fire seemed to consume almost each and every living memory of my childhood.

00:28Fear, it

00:57seems, was the only emotion enveloping Kashmir those days.

01:01Fear from the gun, from fundamentalists, from foreign mercenaries, and yes, also from the

01:15forces that were trying to stun them out.

01:19The dilemma and uncertainty were complete.

01:23People would always get killed in a war, end war for that matter, and yes, among them would

01:30inevitably be a civilian population, sandwiched between their own perceived heroes and villains.

01:41The question inevitably was, which side would a person support?

01:48The side of the fundamentalists, who had started becoming a law unto themselves, ruthlessly

01:53silencing their critics, or the people who confronted them, the keepers of law and order

01:59in this land.

02:02The question of good or bad hardly mattered, when the mind tended to be insane.

02:09Choices did seem a bit limited.