Indian actor Darshan Kumaar recently shared how he felt after watching the clips of the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir. He expressed that the videos of the attack have restored distressing memories of the time he was getting ready for his film, The Kashmir Files
While speaking to Hindustan Times, Darshan said, “I was shown the visuals of the victims of the exodus before the shoot started; sehen kar paana mushkil tha.” He played the role of a university student in his film, The Kashmir Files, which is the story of Kashmiri Pandits in the 1990s.
Additionally, Darshan stated, “The character I portrayed – the person now lives in the US. But even today, he cannot sleep with the lights off. Khauf hai unke andar abhi tak. When I saw the visuals from Pahalgam on the TV, I couldn’t watch it.”
He later talked about the victims of the attack, “A newly married woman revealed that the terrorists shot her Naval officer husband while he was eating bhelpuri with her… woh pain sochiye, it can’t be described. Yeh horror nahin bhool paayegi. This was an attack on all of us, on every Kashmiri, on every Indian. Agar hum uss sacchai se aankh band kar lenge, toh pehle aag Kashmir mein lagi hai, phir kahin aur lagegi.” He added.
Darshan Kumaar also looked back on the reactions of the Kashmiris when he was shooting for The Kashmir Files in 2022. He said, “Itne dukhi thay wahan ke log that people were not visiting Kashmir. I saw on the news that nearly 2.5 crore people visited the state in 2024, a number which was earlier down to lakhs.” Darshan also added, “Things had just started changing [before the attack.”
On his work front, Darshan was most recently seen in the 2024 film Kaagaz 2. The cast of the film included Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Satish Kaushik, Smriti Kalra and Anang Desai. He will also star in the upcoming film RMCS.
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