Ashvin Kumar

Little Terrorist

Director	Ashvin Kumar
Country of production:	India, UK
Year of production:	2004
Duration:	15 min
Sound:	Roland Heap
Camera:	Markus Huersch
Editing:	Ashvin Kumar
Music:	Nainita Desai
Cast:	Salim Ali Khan, Sushil Sharma, Meghnaa Mehtta
Production:	Alipu Films

Film plot

Jamal, twelve-year old Moslem Pakistani mistakenly crossed border between India and Pakistan, where he met a strange ally Bhola in Hinda Brahmin. Indian soldiers invade Bhola's village looking for »terrorist« who has crossed the border. His cousin Rani thinks that they may not let a Moslem in their Hindu house. Bholo and Rani face the problem of hiding Pakistani, and their deep belief against the Moslems, and Jamal's only hope is humanity between the people divided by a superficial border many years ago.

The film is based on true story. In early 2003 a Pakistani boy mistakenly crossed Indian-Pakistani border. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee returned the boy to his family in Pakistan, which was the beginning of tensions between these two nuclear countries, which have, for a year, been at the verge of war.

Ashvin Kumar (director, producer, scriptwriter, editor) began working as an actor and director in theatre. He undertook a degree in Media and Communications at Goldsmith's College, University of London, in 1996, after which he began working in films as an editor. Ashvin edited, produced, acted-in and directed plays, short films, commercials and music videos, whilst setting up his own digital post-production business in New Delhi, India which he sold in 2001 to pursue a full-time career in filmmaking by relocating to London and briefly attending the London Film School.