“White Snow,” the latest project from celebrated Indian filmmaker Praveen Morchhale, is his “artistic revolt” against political systems that repress artists. The project has…
Set in and around Kargil, a Muslim-dominated town in the Himalayas, where a war was fought between India and Pakistan in 1999, the film tells the story of Amir, whose short film gets banned due to a complaint from a religious leader, and his social media accounts gets blocked. His elderly mother Fatima sets out on an arduous journey in the Himalayan mountains to show the film in villages, which breaks her mentally and physically and brings her close to madness before she becomes a free soul.
“If you look at India particularly, and if we look at a broader scenario in many countries, we artists are not allowed to speak the way we want to about art, culture or society. We have been restricted by many laws and government restrictions that are being created,” Morchhale tells. “And with social media also being controlled it is becoming very tough for us to express our views.
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