Kashmir the Focal Point in ‘Eeb Allay Ooo!’ Filmmaker Prateek Vats’ Busan APM Project ‘Chronicles of a Confession’

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Naman Ramachandran After his fiction feature debut, the absurdist satire “Eeb Allay Ooo!,” Indian filmmaker Prateek Vats is readying political comedy “Chronicles of a Confession.” The film is a selection at the Busan International Film Festival‘s Asian Project Market. “Eeb Allay Ooo!” won big at the Mumbai Film Festival and went on to play at the Berlinale, Sao Paolo and Valladolid among many other festivals.

Written by Vidur Nauriyal and Vats, “Chronicles of a Confession” will follow a Kashmiri shawl seller whose confession to a bomb blast he didn’t commit spurs an investigation revealing truths as absurd as everyday life in Kashmir, northern India.

A few years back Vats chanced upon a news report about a young Kashmiri man walking into a police station in Mumbai and confessing to a series of bomb blasts and investigations revealed that the concerned man had nothing to do with the blasts and had claimed responsibility because he was fed up with his life in Kashmir and thought that life in jail would be better.

That was the genesis of “Chronicles of a Confession.” “I do not claim to understand the varied nuances of the situation in Kashmir, let alone articulate any solutions for it.