Jammu, Sept. 20 -- With the opening of new multiplex cinema halls in Kashmir, a new chapter in Kashmir's tumultuous relationship with the movies begins. In the last three decades, there have been no cinemas in Jammu & Kashmir. When militancy erupted in Kashmir in the late 1980s and early 1990s, theatres were forced to close their doors. Film theatres were among the first casualties of the Kashmir valley's increasing militancy. In August 1989, the Allah Tigers, a lesser-known and now-defunct militant group commanded by self-proclaimed Air Marshal Noor Khan, imposed a ban on theatres and bars in the region through local publications. Extremists who advocated for an Islamic insurrection used the phrase from the 1979 Iranian revolution, "La S...