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A Kashmiri serenader comes to town
Updated On: 30 March, 2019 08:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Aastha Atray Banan
No Fathers in Kashmir director Ashvin Kumar and singer Ali Saffudin talk about why a Kashmiri poetess is important

Ali Saffudin
The song, sung by Kashmiri poet Habba Khatoon, is about her wandering the hills of Kashmir, looking for someone she has lost. In that way, it connected with our film on many levels," says director Ashvin Kumar, of the song Roshay, from his film No Fathers in Kashmir, which releases this week.
The film, about a local Kashmiri boy helping a teenage British Kashmiri retrace her roots, has already been talked about, as it tackles issues about the Valley at a sensitive time. The song, which the director likens to the Rajasthani folk song Padharo Mhare Desh, is a song every Kashmiri grew up listening to. "It's the quintessential Kashmiri song, and Habba Khatoon wrote it for her partner, the king of Kashmir, Yousuf Shah Chak. It has stunning parallels with our movie," he says.




