New Delhi: The makers of ‘The Kashmir Files’ are on Cloud nine as the movie has set cash registers ringing and is on way to become a blockbuster hit. Winning rave reviews across the country, the movie has found itself in the crosshairs of valley politicians who are taking turns to slam the movie & rebuke the filmmakers.
J&K People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Lone is the latest to hit out at ‘wrong portrayal’ of turmoil & mayhem in the valley in 1990s. He termed the movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ a work of fiction and said that the real sufferers of exodus were Muslims as they paid much bigger price than Kashmiri Pandits.
‘Film, a piece of fiction’
“There is no doubt about injustice to the Kashmiri Pandits. Kashmiri Muslims have suffered 50 times more than Pandits. You cannot document the pain of just one community. We are all in it together. I have lost my own father to bullets,” Lone told newsmen.
Lone also attacked the filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and accused the crew of trying to wedge a divide between communities and inciting hatred against Muslims.
“Kashmiri Muslims were as helpless as Pandits in 1990s. But, the main objective of Vivek Agnihotri (director of the film) is not to show the pain of Pandits but to only sow seeds of hatred between different communities. He doesn’t know that Pandits are living with us even today. Has he thought about them?,” he said.
‘BJP trying to create many Pakistans’
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti went a notch further and attacked the Modi dispensation for promoting a ‘hate-mongering film’. Yesterday, she took potshots at the BJP and alleged that the ruling party was trying to divide the nation and ‘creating many Pakistans’.
“The manner in which GOI (government of India) is aggressively promoting Kashmir Files and is weaponising pain of Kashmiri Pandits makes their ill intention obvious,” Mehbooba Mufti
In Jammu and Kashmir, everyone faced atrocities. The way BJP and PM are promoting the film (The Kashmir Files), in the same way, if they would have done something for the Kashmiri Pandits in last 8 yrs,then their situation would have been different today: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti pic.twitter.com/XX5shnbXmY
— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2022
Farooq Abdullah gets angry on scribe’s query
National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah lost his cool yesterday when he asked about atrocities on Kashmiri Pandits during the 1990s.
The former J&K CM ducked the reporters question and said that the government should form a commission if there are any doubts about our governance.
फिल्म The Kashmir Files पर पूछा सवाल, तो बौखला उठे NC प्रमुख फारुक अब्दुल्ला…वीडियो pic.twitter.com/wEVO0hegnV
— Newsroom Post (@NewsroomPostCom) March 22, 2022
NC blames then governor Jagmohan
Omar Abdullah, the National Conference (NC) vice president and former J-K CM said that the filmmakers ignored the sacrifices of Muslims and Sikhs who were also victims of militancy.
“When the unfortunate incident of Kashmiri Pandit migration took place, Farooq Abdullah was not the chief minister. Jagmohan was the governor. It was V P Singh’s government at the Centre which was supported by the BJP from outside,” Abdullah told reporters last week.
The film, which showcases the forced exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley has been mired in controversy ever since its release on March 11. It recounts the horrific & horrid tales of brutality, bestiality on certain community sponsored by Pakistan-based terrorists.
