Jashn-e-Azadi [videorecording] = how we celebrate freedom / producer, Sanjay Kak ; associate producer, Aijaz Hussain ; written & directed by Sanjay Kak.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Kak, Janjay, director, author, producer.

Octave Communications, producer, distributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Kashmiri

Urdu

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--India--Jammu and Kashmir--History.

Nationalism.

History.

Jammu and Kashmir (India).

Azad Kashmir (Pakistan).

India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

How we celebrate freedom

Place of Publication:

[New Delhi, India] : Octave Communications, [2007]

Language Note:

In English, Urdu and Kashmiri with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD.

Summary:

Explores the many effects that the India-Pakistan struggle over Kashmir has had on the people of the area. "It's 15th August, India's Independence Day, and the Indian flag ritually goes up in the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir. But the empty streets and the sullen silence that greet India's claim on Kashmir spark off old questions about freedom-- azadi ... In the aftermath of 18 years of armed struggle, with 60,000 dead and nearly 7,000 mission, death and loss is everywhere. ... mix of verité footage, rare archival material, poetry and text."--Container.

Participant:

Narrator, Sanjay Kak.

Credits:

Photography, Ranjan Palit ; editor, Tarun Bhartiya ; music design, Suchet Malhotra.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

259237340