Mass Blindings, Recast As Heroism: Chauhaan & Bollywood’s New Turn To Anti-Kashmiri Propaganda
As Bollywood's propaganda films move from inventing conspiracies to minimising documented state violence, Chauhaan recasts one of Kashmir's most controversial crowd-control weapons—the pellet gun or pump-action shotgun—as a symbol of heroism, overlooking the evidence of its human cost: thousands wounded and about 1,000 blinded.
