Conservations around cinema may sound absurd, even heartless, at a place like Kashmir. There is one defunct cinema hall, a few meters from the park where the Valley’s Half Widows organise their monthly sit-in for years now. The faces are familiar to the passersby. And all they can do is move on as they recite a silent prayer! US-based Kashmir-born film director and screenwriter Danish Renzu went ahead to make a film around the fortitude of these women. Set in the turbulent 90s and amidst heavy militarization of Kashmir, Renzu’s "Half Widow" is the story of a newly-wed Kashmiri