Article 370

On 5 August 2019 the Indian government revoked Article 370 of the constitution, which had given Jammu and Kashmir its special status. Four and a half years later, 'Article 370' turned that decision into a Hindi political action thriller, directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale with Aditya Dhar, the director of 'Uri: The Surgical Strike', among its writers and producers.

Zooni Haksar (Yami Gautam) is a National Investigation Agency officer in Kashmir who, after going it alone on an operation against a militant leader, is reprimanded and moved to Delhi. There she's sought out by Rajeshwari Swaminathan (Priyamani), a senior official in the Prime Minister's Office who is quietly working to end the region's special status and wants Zooni back in the valley at the head of a team.

For Zooni it's personal too: she's still carrying her father's death, a whistleblower whose case was never investigated. Told in six chapters, the film moves between operations on the ground and meetings in Delhi's corridors of power all the way to the vote in Parliament.

Gautam, who is married to Dhar, trained with army personnel for the action scenes and has said she found out she was pregnant after they'd been shot. Much of it was shot in Kashmir, and Arun Govil plays the Prime Minister. It opened in Indian cinemas on 23 February 2024, a couple of months ahead of the general election, and passed 100 crore rupees worldwide.

Reception was sharply split. Plenty of critics praised Gautam and the film's drive, while others called it government propaganda that leaves out Kashmiri voices. At India's National Film Awards in 2026 it won best feature film, best actress for Gautam and best music. In the UK it's on Netflix and ZEE5.

• Action
• Thriller
• Drama