Congratulations to those who went to watch The Kashmir Files, a hard-hitting factual drama woven into film screen writing with superb performances by all actors and hats off to Vivek Agnihotri to bring to fore this thorny and shameful episode in front of the Indian public.
It is unbelievable that Bollywood never saw it fit to make a film of these tragic events since 1990. I was pleased to see so many youngsters and people from all backgrounds queuing up at Vue Cinema at Stratford Westfield even on a weekday afternoon.
I would have liked more corroborative interviews with the survivors on the lines of excellent documentaries made on Holocaust by Jewish filmmakers although the message was loud and clear. People who considered their neighbours trustworthy were informed upon only to be subjected to terrible violence.
The militants who spread fear with their slogans ‘Convert, Leave or Die’ were menacing. God fearing men and women with no other way to defend and little support from the J & K government had no choice but to leave. In the light of Ukraine crisis, it is unimaginable that everyone from the UN, Superpowers central to local government and media failed the Kashmiri Hindus and non-Muslims who are termed derogatively as kaffirs’
What is equally demeaning is the narrative about Kashmir being spread by media all over. Since my college days you hear nothing but the plight of the Kashmiris and battleground between the two neighbouring countries with nuclear weapons. And since Modiji’s Prime Ministership our so-called national broadcaster (recently renamed as Biased Broadcasting Company), an ardent critic of BJP and responsible for spreading many untruths and unsavoury stories against Hindus has done it once again by publishing ‘news’ about the film. Once can immediately see that the story has not basis, instead it is a monologue with some snaps of Twitter to suit their narrative. I was so enraged that I have written the following complaint which I am sure echoes the sentiments of all British Hindus.
This is another of BBC’s Bakwaas…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-60732939
Kashmir Files: Vivek Agnihotri’s film exposes India’s new fault lines By Meryl Sebastian
BBC News, Delhi
‘And my complaint:
Above news coverage concerning what is a landmark film, I have the following points, bearing in mind how anti-Hindu and anti-India your once well-respected organisation has become over the last few years.
You have tried your best to dilute the cinematic and factual effect to the audience world over by using words such as ‘middling reviews’ ‘fictional’, ‘careless’, ‘Islamophobic’, the almost laughable term ‘small-budget film with no big stars’ and many more
- a) The film, with its limited publicity the number of screens showing, has exponentially increased
https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/box-office-special-features/kashmir-files-box-office-screens-vivek-agnihotris-directorial-increased-650-4000-one-week-owing-overwhelming-response-audience/
- b) The BJP angle, which is a BBC favourite to divert attention from the atrocities, murders, and rapes those Kashmiri Muslims meted out on innocent Hindus, Sikhs, Dogras, Christians, and Dalits (not just Pandits). The story was always there for someone like Vivek Agnihotri to make into a film to make people aware and change the pro-Muslim narrative spread over the years by your kind of reportage. It is not fictional as you suggest, but based upon journalistic backup (unlike yours which hides behind words such as ‘reviewers has spanned the film’) without clarifying who! Lot of this so-called ‘news’ appears to be a personal reaction from your sub-editors at the roaring success of the film.
- c) Inviting someone from anti-BJP media to rant about ‘right-wing Hindu’ painting them in a bad light is frankly a tired and useless ploy as it gives less credence to an ‘unbiased’ approach. Just look at the number of stories you seem to have time and budget of ‘Muslim victims’ which only your staff must be reading
On behalf of many British Hindus like myself who were aggrieved to watch the plight, sufferings, and displacement of Kashmiri Pandits you have insulted us with your biased reportage’
Please write to your MPs, The Information Commissioner and go and to talk to Media about such callous ignorance and convenient reporting by BBC wasting our license fees
Jai Hind :Desh Premi
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