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Newly emerging ‘social problem films’ on Kashmir appear as a shift from the conventional construction of Kashmir and Kashmiris in Bollywood. This study, through critical narrative analysis (CNA), examines the politics behind the representation of the ‘social problems’ of Kashmir in recent Hindi films. As the narratives of these films are marked by selectivity and arrangement of historical events, this study demonstrates that Orientalist tropes continue to figure in the films in new forms. It is demonstrated that the films, whose narratives are fully dedicated to the ‘inside’ of Kashmir, inflict layered violence against the actual political and historical realities of the region. While engaging with the colonial and post-colonial binary trope of people-versus-land, the films not only obfuscate the historical context, they vindicate an outside intervention by presenting an axiomatic image of the events, cut off from their socio-political and historical roots. The two films under scrutiny in this study are  Haider  (2014) and  Laila Majnu  (2018). The subject matter of both is Kashmiri youth, and far from unveiling the ‘youth problems’ of Kashmir, they end up constructing a fresh imagery in which the ‘psychotic’ behaviour and trauma of Kashmir’s ‘misguided’ youth is socially located and explained.

Old imaginaries in a new frame: the politics of Bollywood’s ‘social problem films’ on Kashmir