FLOWERS FROM KASHMIR

Haq Se

STARRING: Surveen Chawla, Parul Gulati, Rajeev Khandelwal, Parvail Gulati

DIRECTOR: Ken Ghosh

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Louisa May Alcott’s 19th century novel about women’s empowerment into a modern-day tale of love, lies and heartbreak in Kashmir.

Director Ken Ghosh, with the persuasive help of writers Devika Bhagat and dialogue writer Renuka Kunzru, translocates and refurbishes the original with a full lot of air and feelings in this Hindi web series.

I was hooked to the deeds and misdeeds of the women in the Mirza family - their patriarch has gone missing at war - from the rst episode. While one sister lives in the world of music and poetry, another thrives on being Kashmir’s hottest supermodel (strictly in her mind, that is). There is an aunt (played with grace and restrain by Simone Singh) who is in a doomed and disgraced relationship with a