People Would Have Appreciated The Kashmir Files If It Was About Muslim Plight Vivek Agnihotri

Mumbai, 17th March 2022 (NewsHelpline) – Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri says that if would have made a film about Muslim people plight in Kashmir, things would have been a lot different.

Vivek Agnihotri was interacting with News Helpline during a press conference to promote The Kashmir Files and urge government of Maharashtra to deem the film tax-free in the state.

Written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri, The Kashmir Files, based on exodus of Kashmiri Pandits during surgency in 1990, has attracted a lot of heat from political parties, critics, and minority groups.

Talking about the film, Vivek said, “If I was to make a film on oppressed Muslims in Kashmir, I bet there will be funding, stars to work in it, promotion and marketing people lining up to help and money to be made, but the moment I made it on Kashmiri Pandits or Hindus, the whole went controversial and difficult. I want to tell stories of India, which people are scared to tell, I am not scared of no-one, and I will keep on telling untold stories”

Further adding, Vivek said that getting the information about the subject was difficult. He said, “There is a lot of material on Holocaust, when Jews were killed and made to leave their country, there is material on it and one could easily make a film, but in case of Kashmir, no one even bothered to write an FIR. There was no material, I even sent an RTI to the government, even that wasn’t helpful, so my dilemma was what to do now?”