Outrage After Israeli Filmmaker Nadav Lapid's Remarks on 'The Kashmir Files', Case Filed
News 18The remarks made on the Hindi film ‘The Kashmir Files’ at the 53rd International Film Festival of India by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, who was also the jury head of the event, seems to have sparked massive outrage with Israel’s ambassador to India, Naor Gilon, issuing an open letter over the matter, many other political reactions coming in, and now police complaint also filed against the filmmaker. Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, the jury head of the 53rd IFFI, on Monday described ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “propaganda" and “vulgar". After actors of the film Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar reacted to Lapid’s “propaganda" comment, Israeli ambassador to India Naor Gilon issued an open letter in which he told Lapid that he “should be ashamed". Congress’s firebrand leader Supriya Shrinate wrote on Twitter, “PM Modi, his govt, BJP, the RW ecosystem feverishly promoted ‘The Kashmir Files’ A movie rejected by International Film Festival Of India.