New Delhi, March 15 : Having become the most talked about film, “The Kashmir Files” is dominating the hearts and minds of the public in almost all of India. Several state governments, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Goa, Tripura, Gujarat and Karnataka have already made it tax free. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was the latest to issue orders to make the Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri directorial tax free on Tuesday. There are further calls in states such as Ladakh and Maharashtra to make it tax free. However, in spite of its heavy research and fact-based depictions of the real life killing of Kashmiri Hindus, the film has been targeted as part of a sabotage campaign from certain media outlets either refusing to promote the film or deriding it by giving negative reviews and falsely declaring it as a piece of “propaganda” and promoting “Islamophobia”. Even certain theatres refused to show the film, then there was the case of assaulting movie goers in Jammu’s Wave Cinemas. “The Kashmir Files” presents a factual and brutally realistic account of the Kashmiri Hindu genocide in the 90s at the hands of Pakistan backed Islamic terrorists and stars Anumpam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumar, Puneet Issar, Prakash Belawadi, Atal Srivastava, Chinmay Mandlekar and Bhasha Sumbli. The film was released on March 11.
With agency inputs
