Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction MP Sanjay Raut also supported IFFI jury head Nadav Lapid’s controversial statement on the film ‘The Kashmir Files’ and called it a party propaganda film.
held in Goa IFFI jury head Nadav Lapid After now the spokesperson of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction Sanjay Raut Now tooThe Kashmir Files‘ has been described as a propaganda film. While interacting with the media today (29 November, Tuesday), he said that this film is a film promoting the favor of one party and against the other party. After the release of this film, the attacks on Kashmiri Pandits have not reduced, but have increased in the valley.
Sanjay Raut further said that if there is so much sympathy for Kashmiri Pandits, then a part of the crores of rupees earned by the film should have been given for the upliftment of Kashmiri Pandits. But this was not done.
This is how the controversy started again on the film ‘The Kashmir Files’
Let us tell you that ‘The Kashmir Files’, one of the highest-grossing films this year, has once again come into the limelight. In fact, Nadav Lapid, the jury head of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has increased the controversy by giving a statement on this film. Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has called it an obscene propaganda film. Filmmaker Ashok Pandit has termed Nadav Lapid’s statement as an insult to Kashmiri Pandits. He has criticized the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for appointing a person like Lapid as the head of the jury.
Actor Anupam Kher has also criticized Lapid’s statement by tweeting on this. Anupam Kher has written, ‘No matter how high the stature of a lie is… it is always small in comparison to the truth.’
IFFI jury head Lapid said this on the film ‘The Kashmir Files’
In the IFFI program held in Goa’s capital Panaji, Israeli filmmaker and jury head had said about ‘The Kashmir Files’, ‘We are all angry. We found this film like a ‘propaganda porn film’. This film is not eligible for such a prestigious film festival. I say this openly from this forum. This is an important discussion. Which should be done without wavering. This is necessary for art and life.
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