{"id":29885,"date":"2026-09-09T01:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=29885"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:25:33","slug":"dal-lake-turns-into-open-air-cinema-with-floating-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/dal-lake-turns-into-open-air-cinema-with-floating-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dal Lake turns into open-air cinema with floating screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brings classic Kashmir films back to lake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Junglee<\/em><\/strong><strong> screened on opening night, <em>Arzoo<\/em> on day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Sep 08: The waters of Dal Lake have turned into an unusual cinema hall, where a screen floats on the lake, and audiences watch from its banks, adding a distinctly Kashmiri touch to the first International Film Festival of Jammu &amp; Kashmir (IFFJK).<\/p>\n<p>The Floating Cinema, one of the festival\u2019s most striking attractions, began on the opening day of the four-day festival on Monday with a screening of the 1961 classic Junglee.<\/p>\n<p>According to details obtained by the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), people gathered along the banks of Dal Lake to watch the film on the floating screen, turning the lakefront into an open-air viewing space.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative takes cinema beyond conventional theatres, bringing films into a setting that has long been part of Kashmir\u2019s cinematic identity.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the second day of the festival, the Floating Cinema screened Arzoo (1965) from 8 pm to 10 pm. The brochure also lists Kashmir Ki Kali (1964) for September 9 and Kabhi Kabhie (1976) for September 10, continuing the festival\u2019s celebration of classic films associated with Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of films adds a nostalgic layer to the initiative, as Kashmir\u2019s landscapes have featured prominently in Hindi cinema over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>With the screen placed on the waters and viewers gathered along the lake, Dal Lake itself becomes part of the cinema experience, bringing together Kashmir\u2019s iconic scenery and its long association with films. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brings classic Kashmir films back to lake Junglee screened on opening night, Arzoo on day 2 Srinagar, Sep 08: The waters of Dal Lake have turned into an unusual cinema hall, where a screen floats on the lake, and audiences watch from its banks, adding a distinctly Kashmiri touch to the first International Film Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29887,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885\/revisions\/29887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}