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Shoojit Sircar shines as a debutant director in Yahaan and covers for all its shortcomings. The movie is set in Kashmir under political war and the romance between a soldier and a Kashmiri girl. Technically doesn’t hold up well as many deubtants have to work with in their budget constraints. Still Shoojit nails his chance and a good start to his career.
One needs guts to make a directorial debut film on the sensitive Kashmir issue. This is Shoojit Sircar's Roja, but deals with the valley's conflict quite deeper.
Chemistry between Shergill and Lamba worked beautifully, amplified by a soul-stirring Naam Adaa Likhna by Shantanu Moitra.
watch it twice before and still adoring this gem cause it's one of first bolly movies I've watched, this showing the real side of violence in way, in other side of how their love is too like a love song, Jimmy is a gem and he's one of best actors in his generation and god knows how i hate use “underrated” word but unfortunately yes he's, minissha in her introducing is good and looks so soft and wanted to see katrina to watch her kashmiri origins (if you don't know she was narrated) but still minissha kinda better across her acting in her first times, I'm soabing at the album, nothing bad I've seen by shoojit!!
Yahaan wanted to be a sensitive love story against the backdrop of conflict, but ends up as a propaganda-tinted melodrama. It exoticises Kashmiri women, flattens Kashmiri identity, and glorifies the Indian Army, while reducing the conflict to clichés.
The film is hollow at its core. For Kashmiris, it feels less like representation and more like appropriation.
Yahaan is not just a flawed film, it is a failure on nearly every front. The story is clichéd, the acting unconvincing, the politics one-sided, the representation inauthentic, and the sound design laughably poor. What could have been a powerful love story rooted in Kashmiri reality instead plays like propaganda wrapped in soap-opera aesthetics.