Vishal Bhardwaj

Saqib Bilal, who did a cameo in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider and later joined Lashkar-e-Taiba, shot dead

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Saqib Bilal, a class 11 student, who had made a special appearance in Vishal Bhardwaj’s highly acclaimed Haider in 2014, had reportedly joined the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. In an 18-hour long gun battle with the Indian armed forces, Bilal, along with another militant named Mudasir Rashid, was killed at Mujgund in the outskirts of Srinagar on … Read more

Vishal Bhardwaj at Film Bazaar 2018

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In a session titled, ‘Badlands & the ‘Gender’’, filmmaker-producer-music director and singer Vishal Bhardwaj was in conversation with documentary filmmaker and writer Nasreen Munni Kabir to discuss the female characters in his films.  Kabir began the session by drawing attention to the fact that the filmmaker was also a singer and requested him to hum … Read more