{"id":540317,"date":"2026-07-14T03:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:48:10","slug":"indian-film-trailer-reignites-debate-over-use-of-pellet-guns-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540317\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian film trailer reignites debate over use of pellet guns in Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Bollywood film teaser says shotgun caused &#8216;limited damage&#8217; while critics call it &#8216;horrible&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F8%2F3%2F4%2F7%2F12797438-4-eng-GB%2F7e7eb79672eb-h.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260713 CHAUHAAN\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">In a\u00a0trailer for the\u00a0upcoming Bollywood film &#8220;Chauhaan,&#8221; an Indian army officer,\u00a0standing before protesters, says, &#8220;The fault wasn&#8217;t ours.&#8221; He also argues that\u00a0pellet guns cause\u00a0&#8220;limited damage.&#8221; (Screenshot from JioStudios&#8217; YouTube page)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW DELHI &#8212; A trailer for an upcoming Bollywood action film has reignited debate over Indian security forces&#8217; use of pellet-firing shotguns when responding to protests for the past decade, with the teaser saying they cause &#8220;limited damage&#8221; despite thousands of people reportedly suffering related wounds in India-administered Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Politics Bollywood film teaser says shotgun caused &#8216;limited damage&#8217; while critics call it &#8216;horrible&#8217; In a\u00a0trailer for the\u00a0upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41125,146,878,7738,85,11436,46,45503,246147,246146,6407,11314],"class_list":["post-540317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-debate","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-guns","tag-il","tag-indian","tag-israel","tag-kashmir","tag-pellet","tag-reignites","tag-trailer","tag-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}