Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri’s latest release ‘The Kashmir Files’, based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s, has evoked reactions that no one has seen in a long time. From India to America and Australia, the shows of the film are running housefull all over the world. In the post-Covid era, this film has not only brought the audience back to the theatres, but has also united the citizens of the country like never before.
The box office figures of ‘The Kashmir Files’ are also a big milestone. The small budget film starring Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi and Darshan Kumar has collected over Rs 67.35 crore worldwide in just five days. Even more surprising is that the business of the film on Tuesday is almost four times more than the first day’s earnings. According to film trade analyst Taran Adarsh, The Kashmir Files has become the most successful Hindi film after the pandemic. However, while the entire nation including Prime Minister Narendra Modi is talking about the film, Bollywood has remained silent on its success.
Barring Kangana Ranaut and Akshay Kumar, no other top Bollywood personality has commented or tweeted about the film. Recently, Kangana hit out at the Hindi film industry for her “pin-drop silence” on The Kashmir Files, while saying that the film’s performance at the box office has dispelled myths and preconceived notions about films that worked at the box. have broken. Office in the later phase of the pandemic.
Kangana wrote a long note on Instagram, which read, “Please note the pin-drop silence regarding The Kashmir Files in the film industry. Not only the material, its business is also exemplary. Investment and profit ratio can be such a case study that this will be the most successful and profitable film of the year…,”Ek word not Saari Duniya Dekh Rahi Inne But Still Ek Word (The whole world is watching but her) No.) The time has come!”
Shaktimaan fame Mukesh Khanna also took a dig at Bollywood for not promoting the film. He said, “Promote the film if these big promoters don’t promote the film then they do. I don’t know why people in our industry prove themselves apart from India. (If these big promoters don’t promote the film). If yes then promote the film. I don’t know why people in our industry prove themselves different from India.)
When Vivek Agnihotri was asked about Bollywood’s silence on his film, the director told us, “Why is the commentary of these elites on the film important? India has changed! All these old establishments are slowly collapsing. The Kashmir Files is a true account. The film is about real people and their tragedies. It’s not about Bollywood. My heart breaks when I go to theaters and women my mother’s age cry and touch my feet. People are connecting to the film on a different level and that matters more.”
Anupam Kher, who plays Pushkar Nath Pandit, whose family is a victim of violence perpetrated by terrorists in The Kashmir Files in 1990, said, “It’s not about Bollywood, it’s about real stories. Comment or any comment doesn’t matter.”
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, referring to the response to ‘The Kashmir Files’, said that the film has shocked the “entire ecosystem”, which claims to be torchbearers of freedom of expression, but it is not. I want the truth to be told.
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