Must Read! Anurag Kashyap shares Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi’s open letter on Taliban issue

Anurag Kashyap, who is a well-known filmmaker, took to social media and shared an open letter by Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi.

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MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap, who is a well-known filmmaker, took to social media and shared an open letter by Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi.

Sahraa, who has made documentary films Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (2019), Parlika (2016) and Afghan Women Behind the Wheel (2009), is the first female chairperson of the Afghan Film Organisation. She had appealed to the world community to highlight the oppression faced by her nation, as Taliban entered the outlying districts of Kabul on Sunday.

Anurag Kashyap shared Karimi’s post on his social media accounts with the caption, “Pls share it far and wide…” Sahraa Karimi has been actively reporting and sharing photos and videos from Afghanistan, including shots of Taliban insurgents walking into Kabul. In her original post, she wrote, “To All the #Film_Communities in The World and Who Loves Film and Cinema! I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers from the Taliban. #Share it please, don’t be #silent.”

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An excerpt from Sahraa Karimi’s letter read, “I write to you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers from the Taliban. In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire…”