The KASHMIR FILES

The KASHMIR FILES

The Kashmir Files was set to release theatrically worldwide on 26 January 2022, coinciding with India's Republic Day, but was postponed due to the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. It was initially released in over 630 screens in India on 11 March 2022 and was later increased to 4,000 screens.

Tradition says that Kashmir was originally a lake that was drained by the great saint of ancient India Kashyap. It was included in the empire of Ashoka Maurya who is credited with the foundation of the city of Srinagar around the year 250 BC.

But one can't deny the fact that The Kashmir Files is a film which has depicted the actual plight of the Kashmiri Pandit community… who are still fighting for justice against the brutal acts of terrorism… so this film is not on vulgarity but in reality

The beauty of Kashmir…

Kashmir is abound with rich flora, especially large Chinar trees throughout the valley; a tree not very commonly found everywhere. It is a magnificent vibrant tree whose leaves change color to red, yellow, and amber during the autumn season.

· "Kashmir, where heaven touches the earth."

· "Kashmir, a place that's too beautiful to be real."

· "In Kashmir, the beauty of nature transcends all human understanding."

· "Kashmir, where the mountains touch the sky and the lakes reflect the heavens."

· "Kashmir, a piece of paradise on earth.”

The storyline of Kashmir Files.

The story revolves around Krishna Pandit (Darshan Kumar), a JNU student, who thinks his parents were killed in an accident as told by his grandfather, Pushkar Nath (Anupam Kher). But the truth is more depressing. He is caught in the middle of two opposing narratives of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus of 1990. One side is represented by the pro-Azaadi JNU professor (Pallavi Joshi) who is gaining a lot of support on the campus for her Kashmir cause. On the other side is Nath, who has been struggling for 30 years to get justice for the exodus, which the professor claims is a sham. After Pushkar Nath’s death, Krishna goes back to Kashmir to fulfill his last wishes and also meets four of Nath’s friends, a journalist, a doctor, a former police officer, and a retired civil servant. They are shocked to know that Krishna didn’t know the true story of his father’s death. The Kashmir Files then becomes a journey of discovering the truth for Krishna. In one of many traumatic scenes, Krishna’s father, hiding in a container of rice, is killed by a local militant. His mother is forced to eat the blood-soaked rice from the same container.

The truth, though, is that video clips have emerged showing members of the audience, mostly young men, shouting hate-filled slogans against Muslims after watching 'The Kashmir Files'. The truth is that this is a film where all Muslim characters have been portrayed as evil without exception, out to kill Hindus, or, at the very least, drive them out of their homeland. Every one of them has been cast as a rabid Hindu hater, a militant, a murderer, a rapist, a traitor, and a separatist.

Agnihotri can feel justly proud of his achievement here. Perhaps no other film in the history of cinema — barring some Nazi propaganda films in Hitler's Germany — has managed to demonise an entire people and not show a single one of them with an iota of humanity or decency.

The terrorist leader calls himself a flag bearer of love and peace and tells Krishna that his family was killed by the Indian Army and not by the people of the JKLF. Krishna comes back and blames Brahma Dutt for misleading him into believing something that was made up and miles away from reality.

Lavanya.k

BCA 4TH Semester

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