New Delhi (The Stellar News) Saksham Kalia: The Kashmir Files, a movie made by Pallavi Joshi and Vivek Agnihotri is going to screen on 11 March, 2022 all over India. The Movie inspired by the real story of Kashmir and Kashmiri Pandit’s situation in 1990’s.
Movie is an eye opener for all the people who still give justification for that genocide happened with the community of Kahmiri Pandit’s. Remind you, the film tells you nothing new, but reminds you that genocide and forces you to think that why we can’t look at history in the eye without any shame.
Makes you angry again as to why a Yasin Malik and Syed Ali Shah Geelani were allowed to get tacit support from politicians and intellectuals like Arundhati Roy and many more. Why those intellectuals who constantly bat for the ‘azadi’ of Kashmir and call it ‘fundamentally a call for justice’ don’t see the other side of the rightful occupants of the land being forced into mass departure when that is their land and that is their country their home. 3 odd hours of encapsulation of that trauma is spine chilling.
It makes you re-think why farcical negotiations were even on the table when Farooq Ahmed Dar alias Bitta Karate (whose character is played well by Chinmay Mandlekar) has openly confessed to killing Kashmiri Hindus? Why is the conviction rate so low and why was he never sent to the gallows or even given life imprisonment? The Kashmiri Pandit’s betrayal is evidently well documented in this film and makes you ask this question, why is Farooq Ahmed Dar, the self-admitted butcher of Kashmiri Pandits still roaming scot-free?
For the uninitiated, public interest litigation was also filed in the Bombay HC seeking to stall the release of Agnihotri’s film by an Uttar Pradesh man, Intezar Hussain Sayed. His plea stated that the film’s trailer seemed to depict the Muslim community in a bad light and the movie showed a one-sided view of the incident which could trigger violence.
The movie “will not only hurt the religious sentiments of Muslim community but also ignite emotions and inflame members of the Hindu community with clear possibility of triggering violence in all parts of India,” the plea said. It further stated that with the ongoing elections in various states (UP being one of them), the film can be used by political parties to cause communal violence.
