Ashdoc's movie review---Article 370

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The movie is based on the dramatic events in August 2019 when article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir was suddenly abrogated without warning by the BJP government sending a wave of enthusiasm among nationalists in the country .

The movie begins however with the killing of Burhan Wani in 2016 , the Kashmiri terrorist who was the hero of separatists in the Kashmir valley by Zooni Haksar ( Yami Gautam ) who is a security personnel working for the Indian government . The deft manner in which he is killed after finding his whereabouts by threatening his girlfriend without a single collateral causality is impressively shown but doesn't impress those in power and Zooni is removed from her job and this disheartens her especially because she is a Kashmiri hindu who has lost her father to terrorism . She thinks Kashmir is a lost case . Burhan is immediately replaced a by another jehadi by the terrorists as their leader and he gives similar blood curdling speeches calling for jehad and opening asks for joining Pakistan loudly cheered by his audience .

Zooni gets a chance to operate again in Kashmir when she is made part of NIA ( National investigation agency ) . This time the government is determined to abrogate article 370 and Zooni now has a chance to redress the wrongs done to her community .

The movie unfolds like a thriller and keeps you brimming with anticipation for the next turn of events . And doesn't disappoint in keeping the audience interested . The Pulwama attack is shown killing the armyman Zooni has affection for and that increases her passion for revenge .The famous scene when major Gogoi strapped a Kashmiri with ropes to the front of his vehicle to escape a stone pelting mob was recreated to the cheers of the audience in the theater . And the audience was clapping to other dramatic moments of the movie too .

Arun Govil plays PM Modi and it is his decision to change the status of Kashmir . But an impediment to it is another article which has a section deliberately removed . The paper with the original article containing the section which will help change the status of Kashmir is hidden in the library of J and K secretariat and it is upto Zooni to find it in another thrilling sequence .

The movie shows Kashmiri leaders in cahoots with terrorists making terrorism a profitable business that they do not want to end . It shows how terrorism is financed by ISI using loopholes in interborder trade and how pakistani sympathizers first help security agencies capture a few terrorists and use their established trust to then help many more escape .

The chance to change all this comes in August 2019 when home minister Amit Shah ( Kiran Karmarkar ) uses the formerly deleted section in article 367 recovered by Zooni to prove that if the Kashmir assembly is dissolved the parliament has the power to change the status of Kashmir . All this is shown with high drama in parliament opposed with great agitation by opposition leaders . The media is hooked on to this high drama and PM Modi has to escape the assembled media by traveling in a plain car while media is sent on a wild goose chase of another vehicle pretended to be his vehicle .

But the Pakistanis are not without their tricks and they hatch a plan to make the Indian government look like a villain during the whole episode . It is upto Zooni to discover their plan and demolish their ambitions in another thrilling action packed sequence . So how does she do that ? Watch the movie for that .

The music and it's beats really keeps the tempo of the action running throughout the movie and acting is decent by everyone . Plenty of verbal confrontations add to the entertainment with action scenes unfolding one after another as the count of dead bodies piles up . Only this time Zooni is not going to show the dead bodies for separatists to make martyrs out of them . The movie is dominated by Yami Gautam who makes most of the opportunity .

Verdict---Good .

Four stars out of five .
 

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