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One’s Abandoning a home can take Tisca lifetime to heal:
In light of the Afghan crisis, Tisca Chopra took to social media to share that she spent a major chunk of her childhood in Kabul. She tells us, “We were part of the Indian community there. My dad was the principal at the India School, Kabul. We spent 10 years there.”
Recalling her childhood in the country, she shares, “I remember it being a magical time. We would wake up to four feet of snow covering the ground as far as the eyes could see. In the summer, my dad and I used to go climbing up a hill that was at the end of our street in Shahr-e Naw, three or four times a week.”
Chopra resonates with Sahraa Karimi, an Afghan filmmaker and chairperson of the Afghan Film Organisation, who believes the world has abandoned them. She elaborates, “Shahrbanoo Sadat became my friend in Toronto. She and I were discussing how cinema and art are likely to be destroyed by the insanity of the Taliban. They are regressive, brutal and art is beyond their understanding.”
Her heart goes out to those who are stuck in the country or are leaving. “Abandoning one’s home can take a lifetime to heal. The plight of women and children there can’t even be imagined. Anyone who can leave Afghanistan is leaving or has left, including the best brains like lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, IT experts and journalists.”
The actor urges the United Nations to intervene and film communities to support Afghan cinema. She says, “Film and art communities across the globe should come together to stand by the Afghan people. We should make documentaries and shorts about the insanity that is about to be leashed on the people left behind in the country.”
It is lovely to see more and more filmmakers opting to shoot in Kashmir.
I remember it being a magical time. We would wake up to four feet of snow covering the ground as far as the eyes could see.
SONI RAZDAN, TISCA CHOPRA,