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The Kashmir Files Controversy: Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has apologized for his ‘obscene’ comments on the film Kashmir Files. He said that his intention was not to insult the Kashmiri Pandit community or the suffering people. Lapid, who was recently International Jury President at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and sparked a massive controversy by terming the Vivek Agnihotri film as “obscene” and “propaganda”, reiterated that he had only made a “cinematic series”. criticized the film for. Manipulations”.
“I didn’t mean to insult anyone. It was never my intention to insult people or their relatives who are victims. I apologize completely if that’s how he interpreted it,” Lapid, who has since retracted his remarks has left the country. The closing ceremony of the 53rd edition of the festival in Goa this week told news channel CNN-News18 on Wednesday night.
“But at the same time, everything I said and I said clearly that to me and my fellow jury members, it was a pornographic propaganda film and it was out of place and inappropriate for such a prestigious competitive stream. I repeat it again and again.” Repeat that many times,” he said. The Kashmir Files, written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri, focuses on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits during the insurgency in the early 1990s. It was screened at the festival on 22 November under the Indian Panorama section.
The acclaimed director, known for his anti-establishment stand, said his comments were neither a statement on the political situation in Kashmir nor a denial of tragedy. “I have so much respect for the tragedy, the victims, the survivors and everyone else who is out there suffering.
It (my comment) was not about that at all. I will repeat these words 10,000 times if I have to say that I was not talking about a political issue, a historical equation or an insult to the tragedy in Kashmir. The subjects, in my opinion, deserve a serious film.
A day after the controversy began, Agnihotri stated that he would quit filmmaking if intellectuals, including Lapid, were able to prove that the events depicted in his film were false.
Lapid was attacked not only by “The Kashmir Files” team but also by several BJP leaders and Israel’s ambassador to India Nour Gillon as well as Consul General to Midwest India Kobbi Shoshani.
The Kashmir Files controversy: Nadav Lapid issues apology, says ‘I didn’t want to insult anyone’
The Kashmir Files Controversy: Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has apologized for his ‘obscene’ comments on the film Kashmir Files. He said that his intention was not to insult the Kashmiri Pandit community or the suffering people. Lapid, who was recently International Jury President at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and sparked a massive controversy by terming the Vivek Agnihotri film as “obscene” and “propaganda”, reiterated that he had only made a “cinematic series”. criticized the film for. Manipulations”.
“I didn’t mean to insult anyone. It was never my intention to insult people or their relatives who are victims. I apologize completely if that’s how he interpreted it,” Lapid, who has since retracted his remarks has left the country. The closing ceremony of the 53rd edition of the festival in Goa this week told news channel CNN-News18 on Wednesday night.
“But at the same time, everything I said and I said clearly that to me and my fellow jury members, it was a pornographic propaganda film and it was out of place and inappropriate for such a prestigious competitive stream. I repeat it again and again.” Repeat that many times,” he said. The Kashmir Files, written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri, focuses on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits during the insurgency in the early 1990s. It was screened at the festival on 22 November under the Indian Panorama section.
The acclaimed director, known for his anti-establishment stand, said his comments were neither a statement on the political situation in Kashmir nor a denial of tragedy. “I have so much respect for the tragedy, the victims, the survivors and everyone else who is out there suffering.
It (my comment) was not about that at all. I will repeat these words 10,000 times if I have to say that I was not talking about a political issue, a historical equation or an insult to the tragedy in Kashmir. The subjects, in my opinion, deserve a serious film.
A day after the controversy began, Agnihotri stated that he would quit filmmaking if intellectuals, including Lapid, were able to prove that the events depicted in his film were false.
Lapid was attacked not only by “The Kashmir Files” team but also by several BJP leaders and Israel’s ambassador to India Nour Gillon as well as Consul General to Midwest India Kobbi Shoshani.
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