Nazar Ul Islam Wani We are reminiscent of the times in the history of Bollywood when Shemi Kapoor, a Bollywood actor, in 1990’s performed on the songs of Mohd Rafi amidst lush green forests, margin- less meadows, ravines, ridges of Gulmarg and Pahalgam to display and interpret a Mughal Emperor’s cliché before the Indian audience; “If there is paradise on earth...its Kashmir”. It was a time when sun, in Kashmiri imagination, would set in Gulmarg and rise in Pahalgam. Most of the people travelling from India perceived Kashmir as a festive place and a vacation industry. The perception of romance echoed in Bollywood. Its shero raved on the snow caped mountains, danced on ravines and did some canoodling behind the pine trees. The next attractive scene of Kashmir would be an Old man wearing pharan, coned cap while puffing a hubble-bubble in the moving shikaras of dal-lake. These were first impressions of Indian cinema about the subjects. The valleys of Kashmir have alway