‘The Kashmir Files’; Reveal The Untold Story Of 1990 Exodus Sans Politics: Vivek Agnihotri
Jammu, Mar 5: Claiming that there is nothing political about the story, Producer, Director Vivek Agnihotri on Saturday said his upcoming movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ will reveal an untold story of 1990 exodus that forced hundreds of Kashmiri Hindus to migrate from the Kashmir valley.
The special screening of ‘The Kashmir Files’, a film based on the displacement of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s, was held in Jammu on Friday evening. The movie will hit the silver screen on March 11.
The filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri flanked by wife and actress Pallavi Joshi claimed that the film will bring truth and an untold story of the Kashmir Hindus of 1990s exodus to the public. He was addressing a presser here this morning. “The movie will bring out the truth about exodus and displacement of Kashmiri Pandits,” said Agnihotri further claiming that linking the Kashmir solution through the ‘The Kashmir Files’ with politics or political set up will be wrong because in democracy, politics is run by vote banks.
“There is no vote bank of Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir, so perhaps it could not be resolved,” he said.
On the film landing into the controversy before its release as some people have knocked the doors of the judiciary objecting to certain scenes, Agnihotri took a dig at these sections of people and said, “Whatever is shown in the film is based on truth.”
He said the slogans raised in Kashmir or whatever was written on the walls in 1990, everything is shown as it is in the film, which actually is bothering many people.
“The project of ‘The Kashmir Files’ started in 2018 and it took four years of hard research,” he said, stating that it is a film, which till date no one has tried to bring it to the silver screen.
He claimed that the genocide that took place in Kashmir in 1990 is true. “We have interviewed the people who have been victim to the massacre, spoken to the government officials, police officers, subject experts and also interviewed many sections to script this untold story,” he added.
The Director said after the revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, a campaign for Free Kashmir in America was launched, but after ‘The Kashmir Files’ was screened in the US, for the first time in the Capital Hills, a reception was organised for the entire crew wherein it was “accepted” and “admitted” that it was the biggest tragedy and genocide in the world.
