Facts We Didn't Know About The Movie "The Kashmir Files"

New Delhi: The historical drama 'The Kashmir Files' directed by Vivek Agnihotri has been receiving many positive responses from the masses, however, the film is not at all free from criticism.

Ever since it released on 11 March, the film is doing rounds on various social media platforms as netizens have made it a topic of discussion.

It is also a big hit on the box office as people in huge numbers visited theatres to watch the film that depicts the plight of Kashmiri Pandits during the early1990s and late 1980s Kashmir insurgency.

Some users on social media said that the film uses real-life pain for the selling of a product and propaganda running vehicle. But the Kashmiri pandits through this film could see their food, culture and saints on a big screen.

Facts About The Kashmir Files:

The film's director called it the truth of Kashmir and tries all this heart and soul to depict the Nadimarg massacre in 2003, when a total of 24 Kashmiri pandits were killed. But Agnihotri wrongly puts out the fact that Ganjoo was also killed during that period of crisis.

The film also brought in focus the dark moments such as the killing of 4 Indian Air Force officers by the members of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).

On watching the film, one can see a terrorist involved- inspired by JKLF members Farooq Ahmed Dar and Yasin Malik. Farooq, whose role is played by Chinmay Mandlekar confessed on camera that he is behind the killing of 20 Kashmiri Pandits during the 1990s.

The film, however, shows Farooq's involvement in the Nadimarg massacre which had in real involved another terrorist named Zia Mustafa from an altogether separate terrorist group.

In the truth depiction by Agnihotri, the film tried to defame the Jawaharlal Nehru University at Delhi by showing the institution as an anti-national and terror-friendly university.

The film has portrayed the institution as one of the primary reasons for the Kashmiri pandits displacement and it has also blamed on Rajib-Gandhi-led government at the national capital.

This much-needed narrative of Kashmiri pandit though brings out the truth but it is mingled with facts by blaming some of the politicians, ignoring the rest of the period of unrest in the 1990s in Jammu & Kashmir and defaming the University of JNU.

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