Batt Koch

Plot

In the heart of a bustling city of Jammu, far from their ancestral homeland, Kashmir, a Kashmiri Pandit family juggles the complexities of modern life while caring for an elderly grandfather who struggles with a memory condition.

About Batt Koch

Batt Koch (The Lost Lane; transl. Pandit Street) is a 2025 Indian Kashmiri-language drama film directed by Siddharth Koul and Ankit Wali. The film portrays the everyday life of a displaced Kashmiri Hindu family in Jammu, decades after the 1990s forced displacement of their community from their homeland in the Kashmir Valley due to militant violence, and their eventual visit back to their crumbling abandoned ancestral neighbourhood in Anantnag. Produced by Vinayak Razdan, the film stars M. K. Raina, Anil Koul Chingari, Kusum Tikoo, Sakshi Bhat, Kusum Dhar and Ravin Bhat. It premiered at the International Film Festival in Srinagar in November 2025 and had a theatrical release later in March 2026.

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