The Kashmir Files movie released on March 2022 got a rating of 8.3/10 in IMDB .
Not everyone has seen the movie but every other person is discussing it in India. Many politicians from BJP has booked the entire theatre and invited family and friends to watch it for free. There are many things touch your heart through this movie, when I entered the multiplex, I saw jampacked audience waiting for the movie, which I seen only for super-star movies.
Most of the audience were elderly , above 60 +.
I must admire the guts of Vivek Agnihotri for making this movie, unlike all movies which as the starting section as "this story is nowhere related to living or dead personal - anything like these are coincidental" from the usual acknowledgment to "this movie is taken based on real life interviews and reports" is the main highlight.
Compared to Taskent files, or Buddha in a traffic jam, this movie is emotionally attached to a larger community. The scenes, interviews, dialogues mostly taken from real interviews and reports.
As the story goes for an Apologetic pandit to Unapologetic pandit - the sequence will go back to 1990's to present day. Some of the scenes especially Anupam Kher's acting is steller. The scene where he licks the biscuit in poverty - gave the audience tears
Along with supporting roles from Mithun chakrabarty, Pallavi Joshi, Chinmay Mandlekar, Prakash Belawadi, Puneet Issar, Mrinal Kulkarni, Bhasha Sumbli - were excellent !
Vivek has shown guts to openly take this subject without any alterations. I still remember watching "Shikara" of Vidhu Vinod Chopra who made the entire exodus plot as a romantic - apologetic thread.
This movie does not end like a normal movie, it does not provide any conclusion of the stories, of aftermath from revelations, it just serves the purpose - show the brutality of exodus. Some may think why we are beating around the history to provoke or poke the wound - but fake narratives outlived in this habitat for long
We have seen Jodha Akbar, Haider and many - which may excel in movie making but as a historic continuity - a failure.
The political fraternity has also seen the movie , there were debates on national television. PM Modi even met the filmakers. After watching the movie, PM Modi has slammed the “ecosystem that is involved in burying the truths” and urged #BJP lawmakers to stand up for those who “bring out the truth and facts that have been suppressed for years.”
Political leaders in India have long ignored the plight of Kashmiri people and their violent forced exodus from Kashmir. We must admire the truthfulness and determination of PM Narendra Modi to address this issue as portrayed in The Kashmir Files. Even Maharashtra Ex CM Devendra Fadnavis also said after watching the movie that abrogation of Article 370 was a right move in Kashmir.
The world watches as darkness descends in the valleys of the most beautiful place on Earth. Don’t miss The Kashmir Files, in theatres now.