Review of the movie Hamid: A charming and sincere film

Casting of the film Hamid: Talha Arshad Reshi, Rasika Dugal, Vikas Kumar, Sumit Kaul
The director Hamid: Aijaz Khan
The Hamid ranking of the film: . , a movie comes exactly at the right time. Hamid, located in a conflict-ridden Kashmir, tells us that there is still hope, something that we desperately need in our torn and troubled nation.

Hamid (Reshi), eight years old, calls Allah. answers. Hamid is connected to a CRPF jawaan cell phone stationed in one of the most stressful places in the world. The back and forth between the boy and the man, the first in search of his missing father (Kaul) and the second (Kumar) hanging on the shreds of his humanity, form the backbone of this charming film and sincere. [19659008] Hamid's mother, Ishrat, facing her own difficulties, is played with a heartbreaking resilience by the wonderful Dugal, even if her accent dives in places. A husband who goes out one night and never comes back, tells the story of countless women in Kashmir: Dugal takes this universal pain and makes it her own, while she is sitting with a group of men and women holding placards "Disappeared" with photos of their loved ones, a visual that was made familiar to us by news and documentaries.

Describing a highly polarized place like Kashmir is not easy, because in the interest of showing all sides of an argument, a filmmaker can get desperately entangled in too many canvases. The film, based on a play, Phone No 786 by Mohammed Amin Bhat, shows us walls covered with "azaadi" slogans, cabinetmakers, many of whom are not much older than Hamid, as well as those who have interest the border, on the side of the terrorists. You can see that the film chooses not to delve into any of these issues because it wants above all to defend the interests of the ordinary people who live there, people who want to live in dignity and peace.

The CRPF jawaan Abhay is at the forefront of an undeclared war where injuries and losses are commonplace. A man tired of losing his fellow soldiers has the necessary patience, even if it is a child at the other end of the muzzle: Kumar does a great job in showing us the effort to withdraw from the edge of the gulf and rediscover his essential humanity. It's as powerful as the young boy who finds a direction that leads them both in desperation.

Hamid avoids complexity for simplicity, for the right reasons. Eight-year-old children can be the messengers of God: Bhagwaan ke asli bhakt, Allah ke band. Yes, they can.