‘The Kashmir Files,’ by Vivek Agnihotri, has been making news for a variety of reasons. The flight of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s is the subject of the director’s film. The Ministry of Home Affairs has awarded Vivek Agnihotri ‘Y’ security with CPRF cover across India, according to a recent storey in IndianExpress.
It went on to say that the decision was made in response to resistance to the film “from some sectors” and “apprehensions that the director’s depictions of the events would harm particular groups.”
For the uninitiated, Vivek Agnihotri cancelled his Twitter account before to the movie’s debut after getting ‘death threats.’
In a post, the director wrote, “… My DM was filled with vulgar and threatening messages (by you know who). It’s not that I can’t handle such elements, but it seemed there were many Pakistani & Chinese bots. However tough you may be, it’s mentally testing to be surrounded by such intense hate and threats for your family. For what? Making an honest film on the pain and sufferings of our Kashmiri brothers & sisters? Is that why they are rattled that the truth may come out? The ugly world of social media has given power to a lot of evil elements. And our silence gives them hope to succeed. The Kashmir Files breaks that silence. Loud and clear.”
Anupam Kher, Amaan Iqbal, and Darshan Kumar feature in The Kashmir Files. At the box office, the picture is doing exceptionally well.
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