198 Karan Nagar

198 Karan Nagar was a home my father’s father built. The winter of 1990 in Kashmir was one of the coldest in a century. 198 Karan Nagar was locked up in the dead of the night and that home would never be ours again. This film is part travelogue, part memoir and part documentary about me seeing Kashmir through my father’s eyes, discovering Kashmiriyat for myself. Through the drama of family and relationships, the film follows the ambitions of a father and son for their family’s future, drawing from their past. The film also juxtaposes the two sides of life and the conflict in Kashmir – the togetherness and the underlying division that erupts on occasion. The film ponders on the road ahead for a land and its people, stuck for two generations in a political limbo.