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Bollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas An eye-pleasing, sentimental love story Film: Shikara Cast: Aadil Kahn, Sadia, Faisal Simon, Priyanshu Chatterjee Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Rating: * * * Runtime: 120 mins Tripping all through on Bollywood tropes made memorable by the likes of Yash Chopra, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s latest directorial, that markets itself as a refugee story is anything but. Inspired by Rahul Pandita’s ‘Our Moon Has Blood Clots,’ the film has its pivotal characters coming from that Kashmiri Pandit refugee space but the central over-riding theme here is one of abiding, enduring love - the ‘Buniyaad’ kind. So from the early 1980 right up to 2018 Chopra takes us to Kashmir and Jammu, as Shiv Kumar Dhar( Aadil Khan) and Shanti(Sadia) meet up as happenstance extras on a film set, progress to falling in love, getting married and setting up home and hearth in the valley once eulogised as Paradise on earth. While their love for each other remains un...