Bollywood film The Kashmir Files is a laughable piece of right-wing propaganda - Comment
Given the blatant communal climate in India, the implications in the film are unmistakable: that terrorists = Muslims
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Given the blatant communal climate in India, the implications in the film are unmistakable: that terrorists = Muslims
The recently released Bollywood film The Kashmir Files is a laughable piece of right-wing propaganda. But its over-simp...
In telling the story of the Pandits’ brutal expulsion from the Valley, Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files ends up caricaturing voices of dissent. - Issue Date: Mar 28, 2022
The script and the characters are plucked straight out of WhatsApp forward, but its over-simplification will appeal to audiences.
The Kashmir Files has the right noise around the factual statistics on the genocide that happened in 1990 in Kashmir. Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri along with his actress-wife Pallavi Joshi shot a 20-min documentary that showed the pain of real Kashmiri Pandits, who escaped from the massacre. The film that has the runtime of around 2 hrs 40 minutes fails to translate the grief on the big canvas