The film has been in controversies since its release, know why there is a ruckus about ‘The Kashmir Files’

The Kashmir Files Controversy: Film director Vivek Agnihotri’s film ‘The Kashmir Files’ has been in constant controversy since its release. Now once again a controversy has arisen regarding the film. Controversy has arisen after a statement made about the film at the International Film Festival of India i.e. 53rd IFFI Film Festival.

This comment was made by Israeli producer Nadav Lapid

During the closing ceremony of the festival, the jury chief, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, criticized Vivek Agnihotri’s Hindi film The Kashmir Files on stage, calling it a propaganda film. In his address, Nadav said, “We all were perplexed and surprised by the 15th film ‘The Kashmir Files’. It struck us as a propaganda, vulgar film, inappropriate for the artistic competition section of such a prestigious film festival. I feel completely comfortable sharing these feelings openly with you here on this platform, as the spirit of celebration is also one of accepting critical discussion which is essential to art and life. Last week, ‘The Kashmir Files’ was also screened at the festival.

The team of the film gave this reaction

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Anupam Kher, who was seen in the lead role in the film, tweeted about this controversy and wrote, “No matter how high the height of a lie is, it is always smaller than the truth.” The film’s director Vivek took to this. Agnihotri wrote, Truth is the most dangerous thing, it makes people liars.

there was a dispute before

This is not the first time that there is a controversy regarding the film. Even before this, the film is accused of being propaganda and misleading. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had given a strong reaction on ‘The Kashmir Files’ regarding this.

After watching the film, he said, “The whole film focuses on only one family, but in the end the main protagonist emphasizes that not only Hindus, people of different religions including Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs were also killed. But this film has been made only to give a political message that only Kashmiri Pandits were displaced. Half truth has been shown in the film. It is not fair to show one side in the film.” Not only this, continuous half truth on the film. There have been allegations of showing and showing only one main class.

Vivek Agnihotri gave this clarification

Vivek Agnihotri clarified the controversy surrounding the film and said, “Some groups are using Kashmir as a business. Our film has tried to end it. So, those who benefit from it happened, they are trying to create controversy. But there can be no controversy on terrorism.”

Agnihotri said, “We have tried to show that when extremism enters a community and is given ideological support from a section of the society, it leads to disaster.” He said that his film was “completely based on facts”.

Anupam Kher gave this statement

On November 23, the film’s lead actor Anupam Kher said about ‘The Kashmir Files’ that it helped people around the world to become aware of the tragedy that happened to the Kashmiri Pandit community in the 1990s.

He had said, “This is a film based on true events. Film director Vivek Agnihotri interviewed around 500 people from across the world for the film. Five lakh Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave their homes in the Kashmir Valley on the night of January 19, 1990, following escalating violence.” And the memories had to be let go. As a Kashmiri Hindu, I lived with the tragedy. But nobody was recognizing the tragedy. The world was trying to hide the tragedy.”

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