Every day new
movies are coming out that are addressing social issues and are getting great responses
from the public. However, some movies are made to distort history, facts, and sacrifices,
and propagate a certain mindset in the society or world.
The recent release
of the Indian movie “The Kashmir files”
is the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons. The Kashmir Files,
according to Nadav Lapid, an anti-establishment figure, Israeli director, and
IFFI international jury chair, this movie was pushed into the
official competition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). On top
of that, his comment on it considering it as 'vulgar' and 'propaganda' has created
quite a frenzy. Even after getting backlash from Indian media and the Israeli Ambassador to India,
the jury believes it was the crudest movie seen in 15 films that they saw.
Indian Film Festival Jury Head Calls 'Kashmir Files' "Propaganda" | Verified
It is a screaming
fact that the Indian film industry needs life. Already Bollywood is notorious
for its plagiarism of movies and music. Still, their misrepresentation of other’s
cultures, faith, and people is on another level. to this they started to manipulate
the events one-sided and project an image of being a victim in the area which
they have illegally occupied.
Movies create narrative
and leave an image of the idea or thing shown to its viewer. “The Kashmir files”
is a movie that tries to piece together the truth of Kashmir from the bones of
the facts, propelled by a visceral demonization of the Kashmiri Muslim. As usual,
the Muslims are the problem in their movie. The movie takes place in 1990, at the
start of the anti-Indian uprising that has raged for thirty years in Kashmir
under the Indian administration and remains still. It claims to portray the
tale of the Pandits' exodus from Kashmir, a small Hindu minority among the
predominately Muslim population of the area.
The movie was
seen to be extremely Islamophobic, deceptive, and provocative by Indian media
as well. Before the movie's release, its trailer sparked public interest
lawsuits because its provocative sequences are certain to incite intergroup
conflict. Many tactics are employed throughout the entire film by the writer
and director Agnihotri. He entices you with facts, like the terrible
flight of Kashmiri Pandits, before distorting the truth, mocking it, sprinkled
with facts, distorting reality, and so on.
It was quite
easy to pinpoint the propaganda as the head jury for IFFI international also believes IFFI
international the Kashmir files is one propaganda-based movie he said he "knows how to recognize propaganda
disguised as a movie".
It is sad how anyone can put someone's misery under the carpet and wear sheep's skin when they are as cold and dark as the wolf.
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