The Kashmir Files: A tale of horror and gross injustice
2 years, 8 months ago

The Kashmir Files: A tale of horror and gross injustice

Hindustan Times  

The Kashmir Files has brought into focus one of the darkest chapters of recent Indian history, and, in the process, rattled those who were either complicit in the mayhem that hit the Valley post- 1989 or in its wily cover-up during all these years. The Files details, in a raw and lacerating form, how an entire ancient culture was killed by those who invoked radical Islam to validate their agenda of ethnic cleansing. Can one seriously hold a three-hour movie responsible for “hate politics” and “Islamophobia”, as suggested by Rajdeep Sardesai in his column in these pages on March 25? The Files is rather a pithy narration of how the hapless Pandits were killed, maimed, their women dishonoured and raped, houses torched, and places of worship and businesses pulverised, leading to their exodus even as the entire system – courts, Constitution, law-enforcing agencies and media – watched these gut-wrenching developments with a mysterious indifference.

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On ‘The Kashmir Files: Unreported,’ ‘Gadar 2’ and ‘OMG 2’: The anatomy of hate narratives and a reason for hope
1 year, 3 months ago

On ‘The Kashmir Files: Unreported,’ ‘Gadar 2’ and ‘OMG 2’: The anatomy of hate narratives and a reason for hope

The Hindu  

Art binds people to each other but sometimes when prejudice starts informing the craft, cinema becomes a tool to shape hostile propaganda against a community. In the last couple of weeks, we watched two varieties in the form of The Kashmir Files: Unreported and the much-anticipated sequel to Sunny Deol’s Gadar. It is pretty straightforward in The Kashmir Files and …

72 Hoorain: Religious, political leaders in Kashmir object to negative portrayal of Muslims
1 year, 6 months ago

72 Hoorain: Religious, political leaders in Kashmir object to negative portrayal of Muslims

India TV News  

72 Hoorain is the latest Bollywood movie that has courted controversy for 'hurting the sentiments' and 'portraying wrong facts'. Even this film needs to be banned and those who are producing these types of films should understand that such movies are against amity and brotherhood between the communities," Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir Nasir ul Islam told PTI. National …

The Kashmir Files Re-release: When and where to watch Anupam Kher's movie again in cinemas and OTT
1 year, 11 months ago

The Kashmir Files Re-release: When and where to watch Anupam Kher's movie again in cinemas and OTT

India TV News  

The Kashmir Files Re-releases: Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri's directorial The Kashmir Files amassed massive popularity when it released in India in march last year. Starring Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumar and others, The Kashmir Files is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the early 1990s and how it led to the region-based killings. DON'T MISS …

Discourse on Kashmiri Pandits must move beyond ‘The Kashmir Files’
2 years ago

Discourse on Kashmiri Pandits must move beyond ‘The Kashmir Files’

Firstpost  

If the BJP is serious about addressing the issues faced by Kashmiri Pandits, it needs to think beyond The Kashmir Files so that there are no more files to be made in the future Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s remarks on The Kashmir Files, a film based on the persecution of Kashmiri Pandits by Islamists in Kashmir, at the 53rd edition …

A film’s worth, a juror’s conscience and a regime’s agenda: ‘The Kashmir Files’ case
2 years ago

A film’s worth, a juror’s conscience and a regime’s agenda: ‘The Kashmir Files’ case

The Hindu  

George Orwell famously said all art is propaganda. The novelist and literary critic’s statement became relevant all over again as the 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India suddenly came alive during its closing ceremony when the head of the international jury Nadav Lapid described The Kashmir Files, one of the 15 films in the international competitive section, …

Mehbooba backs IFFI jury head’s criticism of ‘The Kashmir Files’
2 years ago

Mehbooba backs IFFI jury head’s criticism of ‘The Kashmir Files’

The Hindu  

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday backed Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s criticism of The Kashmir Files movie at the International Film Festival of India’s closing ceremony. “Finally, someone called out a movie that was nothing but sheer propaganda promoted by the ruling party to demonise Muslims especially Kashmiris and widen the …

‘Kashmir Files Unreported’: Post IFFI row, Vivek Agnihotri announces ‘Kashmir Files’ follow-up film
2 years ago

‘Kashmir Files Unreported’: Post IFFI row, Vivek Agnihotri announces ‘Kashmir Files’ follow-up film

The Hindu  

A day after he challenged the International Film Festival of India jury and Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid to prove that events depicted in his film The Kashmir Files are false, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has announced a follow-up film titled The Kashmir Files Unreported to “expose the whole truth.” Earlier this week, on the closing day of the 53rd edition of …

DC Edit | Much ado about Kashmir Files
2 years ago

DC Edit | Much ado about Kashmir Files

Deccan Chronicle  

An incendiary opinion about a film by a filmmaker who headed the jury at India’s international film festival appears to have set off a diplomatic row. There is rum irony in the government- The Israeli filmmaker, Nadav Lapid, has every right to his opinion about the film and there are free speech absolutists who would go to lengths to justify …

The Kashmir Files Row: From Vivek Agnihotri to Swara Bhaskar, Here's How Celebs Reacted
2 years ago

The Kashmir Files Row: From Vivek Agnihotri to Swara Bhaskar, Here's How Celebs Reacted

ABP News  

New Delhi: 'The Kashmir Files' fails to run out of controversy. The film generated controversy after the Israeli director Nadav Lapid, who chaired the 53rd International Film Festival of India as the head of the jury, called 'The Kashmir Files' a 'propoganda' and 'vulgar film'. Israel's Ambassador to India, Naor Gilon took to his twitter handle and shared pointers bringing …

Israeli filmmaker comments on Kashmir film stoke controversy
2 years ago

Israeli filmmaker comments on Kashmir film stoke controversy

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Israel’s envoy to India on Tuesday denounced a filmmaker from his country after he called a blockbuster Bollywood film on disputed Kashmir a “propaganda” and “vulgar movie” at a film festival, stoking a debate about recent history that fuels the ongoing conflict. Naor Gilon, Israel’s ambassador to India, said he was “extremely hurt” by comments made by …

The Kashmir Files: Row after film festival judge calls Modi-backed movie ‘vulgar propaganda’
2 years ago

The Kashmir Files: Row after film festival judge calls Modi-backed movie ‘vulgar propaganda’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A contentious Indian film endorsed …

BJP's Amit Malviya slams Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s criticism of The Kashmir Files
2 years ago

BJP's Amit Malviya slams Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s criticism of The Kashmir Files

Firstpost  

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, who headed the jury, described The Kashmir Files as “propaganda” and “vulgar” and said he was “shocked” and “disturbed” by its inclusion in the competitive section at the fest. New Delhi: BJP’s Amit Malviya on Tuesday compared Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s condemnation of ‘The Kashmir Files’ to the denial of Holocaust, the killing of millions of …

The Kashmir Files controversy: Nadav Lapid's remark was 'completely his personal opinion', says filmmaker Sudipto Sen
2 years ago

The Kashmir Files controversy: Nadav Lapid's remark was 'completely his personal opinion', says filmmaker Sudipto Sen

Firstpost  

Sudipto Sen said that the jury members “don’t indulge in any kind of political comments” New Delhi: International Film Festival of India 2022 jury member Sudipto Sen has said jury head Nadav Lapid’s remark about The Kashmir Files “was completely his personal opinion”. The jury of the 53rd International Film Festival of India in Goa has slammed The Kashmir Files, …

Farooq, Mehbooba blame ‘The Kashmir Files’ for anger in Kashmir
2 years, 7 months ago

Farooq, Mehbooba blame ‘The Kashmir Files’ for anger in Kashmir

The Hindu  

Top leaders of the J&K-based political amalgam Gupkar alliance, Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, on Monday blamed the recent movie The Kashmir Files for “infusing a wave of hatred among youth in Kashmir” and claimed the situation in Kashmir was getting bad. Youth are angry here for how they are being perceived outside,” former Chief Minister and National Conference …

Reconciliation, not justice: Shashi Tharoor betrays the 'secular' mindset over The Kashmir Files film
2 years, 7 months ago

Reconciliation, not justice: Shashi Tharoor betrays the 'secular' mindset over The Kashmir Files film

Op India  

Dear Shashi Tharoor, I read your statement on the comments you have been receiving over the tweet where you talked about Vivek Agnihotri’s film The Kashmir Files being banned from screening in Singapore. Hindus must shut up or they’d be called ‘haters’ Hindus in secular India must shut up or they’d be called haters by the likes of you, Mr …

The Kashmir Files: Singapore bans film praised by India’s Modi
2 years, 7 months ago

The Kashmir Files: Singapore bans film praised by India’s Modi

Al Jazeera  

The controversial film banned in the Southeast Asian city-state over its ‘provocative and one-sided portrayal’ of Muslims. Singapore has banned a controversial film on the exodus of Hindus from Indian-administered Kashmir for its “provocative and one-sided portrayal” of Muslims that officials in the city-state fear has the “potential to cause enmity between different communities”. Released in March, The Kashmir Files …

Wikipedia continues to attack the movie 'The Kashmir Files'
2 years, 7 months ago

Wikipedia continues to attack the movie 'The Kashmir Files'

Op India  

On May 1, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri lashed out at Wikipedia for the continuous attack on the film ‘The Kashmir Files‘. It depicts the early 1990s exodus to be a genocide, a notion that is widely considered inaccurate and associated with conspiracy theories.” Dear @Wikipedia, You forgot to add ‘Islamophobia… propaganda… sanghi… bigot… etc’. Source: Wikipedia It cited a BBC report …

The Kashmir Files: We are finally talking about the genocide of Hindus in Valley, but let’s not just stop at that
2 years, 8 months ago

The Kashmir Files: We are finally talking about the genocide of Hindus in Valley, but let’s not just stop at that

Firstpost  

The success of ‘The Kashmir Files’ should not make us fall into the ‘politically correct’ mode — to talk about the Kashmiri Hindus, but do nothing to change the status quo I’m the first one to rejoice at the tremendous success of The Kashmir Files. From 1989, when the first Hindu public figures of the Valley of Kashmir were getting …

'The Kashmir Files': Hate - the Right Language For Our Story?
2 years, 8 months ago

'The Kashmir Files': Hate - the Right Language For Our Story?

The Quint  

Regardless of its cinematic worth, The Kashmir Files relentlessly pursues a version of truth those hailing it, swear by. Three decades ago, when thousands of Kashmiris left their home, we were perhaps luckier than some to have extended family already in Delhi to stay with. And yet, many others that survived, showed remarkable resilience by building back lives since - …

Rajya Sabha Secretariat To Screen Prabhas' 'Bahubali: The Beginning' On April 1 Amid 'The Kashmir Files' Controversy
2 years, 8 months ago

Rajya Sabha Secretariat To Screen Prabhas' 'Bahubali: The Beginning' On April 1 Amid 'The Kashmir Files' Controversy

ABP News  

New Delhi: Amid the controversy on the recently released film "The Kashmir Files", the Rajya Sabha Secretariat Recreation Club has arranged a special screening of the Telugu film "Bahubali: The Beginning", for all members on April 1 at the Films Division Auditorium, in Mahadev Road, New Delhi. In a parliamentary party meeting of the BJP held on March 15, Prime …

The Kashmir Files: A tragedy retold
2 years, 9 months ago

The Kashmir Files: A tragedy retold

Hindustan Times  

Long before The Kashmir Files, there was Parzania, a film that relives the trauma of a Parsi family that lost their son in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who now hails Kashmir Files for “truth-telling”, was the Gujarat chief minister at the time. Where The Kashmir Files stands out is that this is a rarest of rare …

Dear Naysayers, like it or not 'The Kashmir Files' has opened up a pandora’s box
2 years, 9 months ago

Dear Naysayers, like it or not 'The Kashmir Files' has opened up a pandora’s box

Firstpost  

In an open letter to ‘The Kashmir Files’ hater and pseudo liberals, Subhash K Jha says whether you like it or not Vivek Agnihotri and his film are here to stay. The sneering contempt and the smearing attempts of putting down the makers of ‘The Kashmir Files ’ are just not working. The Kashmir Files asks the question from the …

Anupam Kher on success of The Kashmir Files: 'It's gone beyond everything I've done in my 500+ film career'
2 years, 9 months ago

Anupam Kher on success of The Kashmir Files: 'It's gone beyond everything I've done in my 500+ film career'

Firstpost  

“The Kashmir Files is not anti-Muslim. No stranger to high waves in his career, Anupam Kher is currently riding the crest of his achievements in Indian cinema with the powerful all-pervasive impact of his latest release, The Kashmir Files. The film has now become a full-fledged movement towards obtaining belated justice for lakhs of persecuted Kashmiri Pandits. Isske baare mein …

How the Left continues to deny the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus by slandering The Kashmir Files
2 years, 9 months ago

How the Left continues to deny the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus by slandering The Kashmir Files

Op India  

Vivek Agnihotri directed ‘The Kashmir Files’, which chronicles one of the darkest chapters of Independent India’s history—the bloodcurdling genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir—was released to a rousing reception in cinema halls this past week. However, in India, there are some belonging to the Left persuasion who are vigorously trying to discredit ‘The Kashmir Files’ and denying the genocide of …

Rewinding History, Unwinding Apathy: Why They Don't Want You To See The Kashmir Files
2 years, 9 months ago

Rewinding History, Unwinding Apathy: Why They Don't Want You To See The Kashmir Files

News 18  

Many people have been taken aback by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s film, The Kashmir Files. “The Kashmir Files” isn’t just a movie that is based on video interviews with first-generation Kashmiri Pandit victims of the macabre Kashmir Genocide. For such a long period, Kashmir, known as paradise on earth and the crown jewel of Bharat Mata, has been a witness to …

PM Modi praises The Kashmir Files movie, says the 'ecosystem' has been trying hard to discredit it
2 years, 9 months ago

PM Modi praises The Kashmir Files movie, says the 'ecosystem' has been trying hard to discredit it

Op India  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday, while chairing the BJP parliamentary meeting, lauded the recently released movie on the Kashmiri Hindu genocide- ‘The Kashmir Files’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on #TheKashmirFiles… Truth based on facts presented in the movie, but the whole “ecosystem” is out to discredit it. कश्मीर फाइल्स पर जारी घमासान के बीच PM मोदी ने महात्मा गांधी और …

OPINION | Can Kashmir Files change the way Bollywood works?
2 years, 9 months ago

OPINION | Can Kashmir Files change the way Bollywood works?

India Today  

“Is this anything like The Schindler’s List,” a friend who accompanied me to a late evening show of the sleeper hit of the year The Kashmir Files asked. While Radhika Menon, played by Pallavi Joshi, is an ardent fan of the ‘Azad Kashmir’ narrative, she finds a challenger in the form of Krishna Pandit played by Darshan Kumar. Even as …

Kashmiri Hindus were RSS people who killed themselves: Pakistani anchor reviews 'The Kashmir Files'
2 years, 9 months ago

Kashmiri Hindus were RSS people who killed themselves: Pakistani anchor reviews 'The Kashmir Files'

Op India  

The stunning admiration and acclaim that the film ‘The Kashmir Files’, which chronicles the genocide suffered by Kashmiri Pandits at the hands of Islamic terrorists, has received since its release has pricked the wrong nerve of radical Islamists in Pakistan. Listen to Pakistani TV : Kashmiri Hindus came from outside and settled inspite of Article 370 & 35A Kashmiri Hindus …

4 ridiculous arguments being used to discredit Kashmir Files and deny the Hindu genocide
2 years, 9 months ago

4 ridiculous arguments being used to discredit Kashmir Files and deny the Hindu genocide

Op India  

The Kashmir Files, the latest film from writer and director Vivek Agnihotri has set the cat among the liberal pigeons. With success, come the detractors, and Kashmir Files has had plenty of them – people who tried to dismiss the entire plot as fiction even though it is based on real events. The party’s official Kerala handle tried to pin …

‘The Kashmir Files’ movie review: A disturbing take which grips and gripes in turns
2 years, 9 months ago

‘The Kashmir Files’ movie review: A disturbing take which grips and gripes in turns

The Hindu  

Once upon a time, writer-director Vivek Agnihotri told us a Hate Story; this week, he has etched yet another. Mounted like a revisionist docudrama, that tracks the tragic exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland in the 1990s, The Kashmir Files is essentially a battle of narratives, where Agnihotri has determinedly sided with one version of the events. The film …

The Kashmir Files: What the movie is about and the distasteful review by Anupama Chopra's website
2 years, 9 months ago

The Kashmir Files: What the movie is about and the distasteful review by Anupama Chopra's website

Op India  

On the 6th of March, my husband, who is woefully apolitical and I went for the special screening of Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’. With viewers walking out of the movie feeling shaken, stirred and everything in between, one has to wonder what goaded Anupama Chopra, a veteran movie reviewer, to publish the most insipid review of the movie, which …

1990 or 2021, Hindus Remain Soft Targets in Kashmir
3 years, 2 months ago

1990 or 2021, Hindus Remain Soft Targets in Kashmir

The Quint  

The fresh spate of killings of the minorities in Kashmir has ruptured the semblance of peace and vitiated the overall environment. It also exhibits that the government of India’s invalidation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution doesn’t automatically translate into neutralisation of Islamist terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. The ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has widely publicised a …

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