Darshan Kumaar: Pahalgam was an assault on each Indian
Could 01, 2025 10:53 AM IST
Actor Darshan Kumaar displays on his time making ready for The Kashmir Recordsdata after witnessing footage from the current Pahalgam terror assault.
For actor Darshan Kumaar, watching the terrifying footage that emerged from the fear assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam introduced again haunting reminiscences of his time making ready for The Kashmir Recordsdata (2022). “I used to be proven the visuals of the victims of the exodus earlier than the shoot began; sehen kar paana mushkil tha,” says Darshan, who performed a college pupil within the movie that particulars the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits within the Nineteen Nineties.
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He elaborates, “The character I portrayed – the particular person now lives within the US. However even at this time, he can’t sleep with the lights off. Khauf hai unke andar abhi tak. Once I noticed the visuals from Pahalgam on the TV, I could not watch it.”
Talking in regards to the victims of the assault, the 38-year-old will get reflective: “A newly married lady revealed that the terrorists shot her Naval officer husband whereas he was consuming bhelpuri along with her… woh ache sochiye, it might probably’t be described. Yeh horror nahin bhool paayegi. This was an assault on all of us, on each Kashmiri, on each Indian. Agar hum uss sacchai se aankh band kar lenge, toh pehle aag Kashmir mein lagi hai, phir kahin aur lagegi.”
Darshan additionally remembers the despair of Kashmiri locals whereas capturing The Kashmir Recordsdata just a few years in the past. “Itne dukhi thay wahan ke log that folks weren’t visiting Kashmir. I noticed on the information that almost 2.5 crore individuals visited the state in 2024, a quantity which was earlier all the way down to lakhs,” he tells us, rueing, “Issues had simply began altering [earlier than the assault.”
