Kashmiri artist recreates 'Kashmir Ki Kali' poster to include pellet injuries

August 11, 2016 17:12

After the the recent morphed black-and-white photographs of celebrities with wounds from pellet guns went viral, a Kashmiri cartoonist has used the iconic Kashmir Ki Kali (1964) film poster to convey the brutal effects of pellets fired by crowd-control guns.

Srinagar-based cartoonist Mir Suhail modified the poster of the blockbuster romance starring Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore to show the actress with a pellet injury in one eye. He got with the idea while watching Shah Rukh Khan defuse a bomb in Kashmir in the 2012 film Jab Tak Hai Jaan on television.

He realised the power of Bollywood and the need to present an alternative to mainstream narratives. "I thought, what would Kashmir Ki Kali look like if it had existed now?" Suhail said. "It was a kind of protest. I want to make people realise that they should view the Kashmir situation from a critical rather than a simplistic perspective."

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