Star Cast : Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Anupam Kher, Kunal Kapoor
DVD Features: Anamorphic Widescreen,  Dolby Digital ® 5.1  Surround, English Subtitles, NTSC All Regions
Director: Rahul Dholakia

Sanjay Dutt, an intelligence officer, is sent to the Valley on a special mission. He must investigate the secret going-ons and unveil a sinister plot that threatens to derail the ongoing elections in the troubled state which has been grappling with terror and violence for the past three decades. Can this diehard officer manage to navigate his way through the conflicting forces --terrorists, separatists, activists, opportunists --and let the voice of the quintessential Kashmiri prevail amidst the cacophony of political chaos?

A word about the cinematography: James Fowlds camera captures Kashmir, both in its beauty and its sinister shades. Mithoon's music score too has enough lilt to draw you in. Serious and sensible cinema, Lamhaa is meant for the movie buff looking for something more....

The highpoint of Lamhaa is the fact that it doesn't use the political overboil as an exotic setting for a love story, nor do the fiery Chinar trees and the serene Dal lake double up as sylvan scenery for romantic duets. There is romance, but a mere suggestion of it, between the ex-militant, Aatif ( Kunal Kapoor) and the firebrand female activist, (Aziza) Bipasha Basu. The twosome, who are fighting their individual battles for a better future for their state, know the bitter truth: it may be ever-after, but in another paradise,when the bullets have stopped flying and the bombs have been silenced. Till then, Aatif wants to try the power of the ballot -- he wants to fight the elections --having realised the nullity of guns and bullets; and Aziza wants to shed her militant garb for a more workable solution. Our agents of change do realise it isn't going to be an easy task, specially since nobody seems to be in favour of normalcy. Neither the fundamentalist Pakistani leader, Pasha (Yuri Suri), propagating his factories of misconstrued jihad across the border, nor the machiavellian spiritual heads like Haji ( Anupam Kher) and the rest, spearheading a hate wave within the state, nor even the sundry middlemen, moneymakers and dubious official agencies drawing their moolah and clout from the Kashmir conundrum.