In 2009, the dreams of young Kashmiri footballer Basharat almost crumbled when he was denied a passport to attend a training camp in Brazil because of his father's militant past. The 18-year-old's story made headlines and eventually chief minister Omar Abdullah intervened to get him the travel document. Filmmaker Ashvin Kumar's Inshallah Football focuses on this subject, which is emblematic of the vicious cycle that two generations of Kashmiris have found themselves trapped in. The Oscar-nominated director stumbled upon Basharat's story during his visit to Kashmir in 2009 to do research for a feature film. He dropped the idea and opted for a documentary on Basharat when he found the true story far more inspiring than fiction - a story that is as much about Basharat's father, who was tortured in custody, as his Argentinean coach Juan Marcos Troia, who runs a soccer academy in Srinagar.