When Ahmer Khan, an Emmy nominated multimedia journalist, first decided to work on a documentary on the Hindutva vigilantes in Uttar Pradesh, he knew he had a tough couple of months ahead in store for him. But as a reporter, he knew that he had to document everything and capture it for the world to see, “to report whatever’s happening, and report it right,” says Khan. It’s not easy as it would sound to some though. Following subjects and covering their lives for a documentary is tough, it requires the people involved to have complete trust on the producers, and that is something that takes a lot of time. Khan stayed in Uttar Pradesh from February to May this year filming this documentary. For him, it also became doubly difficult because his subject was Love Jihad. He was everything the vigilantes were opposed to, Muslim and Kashmiri.“What’s happening is unimaginable for the minority community, and for the greater good of the country as well,” says Khan. His documentary, The Hindu Extremists at War with Interfaith Love, follows the lives of people in Hardoi, a small town in UP, where Vishwa Hindu Parishad members “save Hindu girls” from the trap of Muslim boys who only want to convert them through “love jihad”.
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