Vivek, Anupam react to Nadav Lapid's comments on 'The Kashmir Files'
Mumbai: A day after Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid termed his film a 'propaganda', 'The Kashmir Files' director Vivek Agnihotri in a cryptic social media post said truth is the most dangerous thing as it can make people lie. His reaction came after veteran actor Anupam Kher, who starred in the film, recently said truth will always trump falsehood. Lapid had termed the film as 'propaganda movie' and 'vulgar' at the closing ceremony of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on the night of November 28 in Goa. He had served as the chairperson of the international competition jury at the IFFI.
"Truth is the most dangerous thing. It can make people lie," Agnihotri wrote on 'Twitter'. Written and directed by Agnihotri and produced by a popular production house, 'The Kashmir Files' depicts the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir following the killings of people from the community by Pakistan-backed terrorists.
Kher too took to 'Twitter' to share a series of stills from legendary American filmmaker Steven Spielberg's acclaimed Holocaust drama 'Schindler's List' along with a picture from 'The Kashmir Files'. 'Schindler's List' is the 1993 film which revolved around Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II.
"No matter how big the lie is, it's always smaller than the truth in comparison," the actor, who had attended the special screening of the film at the 53rd IFFI on November 22, wrote.
Also starring Darshan Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi, the film was showcased as part of the 'Indian Panorama Section' at the IFFI.
In his speech at the closing ceremony of the 2022 edition of the film festival, Lapid said he was 'disturbed and shocked' to see 'The Kashmir Files' being screened at the festival. His comments on the movie, one of the most talked about films of the year, sparked a controversy on social media with reactions pouring from various quarters.
