THE OTHER FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Director Kabir Khan’s latest offering, an Amazon Prime series, comes with the tagline . An alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Khan grew up on the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus. His father taught political science there. The question asks itself. What does he make of the several ‘ chants that have resounded in campuses across the country to (The fight to hold on to freedom is tougher, and that’s your fight),” he says. “We are making films about people who contributed towards getting that independence. But are we able to maintain it? Are we living in the India they actually dreamed of?”