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Subject: [KASHMIR SOLIDARITY GROUP, MUMBAI] Inshallah, Football is a film about Kashmir -...
To: Palash Biswas <
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 |  | Inshallah, FootballA story about stone pelters, football and Kashmir.
Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir.
Flicking his cigarette, Bashir gazes into the camera with eyes that have seen worlds shattered: "I was petrified that he would loose sanity, follow my footsteps and become a militant".
Bashir Baba, a much-wanted leader of the armed group Hizbul Mujahideen has given up the gun. When he left his home in Kashmir to join the training camps in Pakistan in the early 90's, his son Basharat was two months old.
Basharat Baba belongs to a new generation of Kashmiris. He has grown up under the shadow of a silent war.
Yet, within it, football is his passion and fuel. For the past three years, another man of vital importance has made his presence felt in Basharat's life.
Marcos, an Argentinean/Brazilian national, and a FIFA accredited football coach by profession, is a most remarkable man who has made his home in this paradoxical land. Marcos aspires to breed world class players from Kashmir. Bridging great cultural distance, Marcos started a football academy called ISAT; and an exchange program to Brazil for his most talented players.
Basharat is one of them, and his scholarship to play football in the land of legendary Pele is a possibility that has fairy tale qualities for him.
The irony of it is that Basharat has been denied a passport by the Government of India.
His crime?
That he was born the son of a militant.
His story questions India's claim of being the largest democracy on this planet. |
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