Lethal weapon: How Bollywood's 'Chauhaan' trivialises the suffering of Kashmiris maimed by Indian forces

Lethal weapon: How Bollywood's 'Chauhaan' trivialises the suffering of Kashmiris maimed by Indian forces Submitted by MEE correspondent on Mon, 07/06/2026 - 09:28 Rights advocates say new film is just the latest in a long line of movies to sanitise India's state violence in Kashmir Kashmiri volunteers and medical workers carry an injured youth wounded by pellet fire during clashes in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, at a hospital in Srinagar, 29 May 2019 (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP) Off Behind his thick glasses, 25-year-old Inam Ahmad’s eyes move with a strained flicker, a visible reminder of the permanent damage inflicted by pellet guns in Indian-administered Kashmir. “My life is not only dark. I live with the pain every day as the pellets in my skull move or heat up,” says Ahmad, who lost 80 percent of his eyesight in 2017 at the age of just 16 when pellets fired by Indian armed forces pierced his skin and lodged inside his head, behind his eyes.