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Vivek Agnihotri Takes Indirect Dig At IFFI Jury Head For Calling โ€˜The Kashmir Filesโ€™ โ€˜Vulgarโ€™, โ€˜Propaganda Filmโ€™

Vivek Agnihotri

โ€˜The Kashmir Filesโ€™ filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, on Monday, seemingly took a dig at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Jury Head Nadav Lapid for calling the film โ€œpropaganda, vulgarโ€ at the festivalโ€™s closing ceremony.

Mumbai: โ€˜The Kashmir Filesโ€™ filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, on Monday, seemingly took a dig at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Jury Head Nadav Lapid for calling the film โ€œpropaganda, vulgarโ€ at the festivalโ€™s closing ceremony.

Agnihotri took an indirect dig at the remark by tweeting, โ€œGM. Truth is the most dangerous thing. It can make people lie. #CreativeConsciousness.โ€

Lapid had called โ€˜The Kashmir Filesโ€™ a โ€œpropaganda, vulgar filmโ€, adding that he was โ€œshockedโ€ to see the film in the competition section of such a prestigious film festival. A video from the festival went viral in which Lapid is seen criticising the film.

โ€œAll of us were disturbed and shocked by the 15th film, The Kashmir Files. That felt like a propaganda, vulgar movie, inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival.

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I feel totally comfortable openly sharing these feelings here with you at this stage. In the spirit of this festival, we can surely also accept a critical discussion, which is essential for art and life,โ€ he said during the closing ceremony.

Lapidโ€™s remarks did not go down well with many. Actors Anupam Kher and Darshan Kumaar, who played key roles in โ€˜The Kashmir Filesโ€™ along with filmmaker Ashoke Pandit and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Vice President Abhinav Prakash were among the people who condemned the controversial comments.

โ€˜The Kashmir Filesโ€™ released earlier this year in theatres and it told the story of the Hindu exodus in the 1990s and targeted killings of the Kashmiri Pandits.

The movie went on to become one of the highest-grossing Bollywood movies of 2022 and Anupam Kher received acclaim for his performance.

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โ€œI Let Go Of Rahul Gandhi Years Agoโ€: Rahul Gandhi

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Rahul Gandhiโ€™s comments about โ€œletting go of Rahul Gandhiโ€ were seen by many to align with his refusal to return to the post of Congress chief, which he quit in 2019 after back-to-back election defeats to the rulling  BJP.

New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhiโ€™s 3,550 KMs โ€œBharat Jodo Yatraโ€ is seen by many as the Congressโ€™s all-in effort to sway public perception in favour of its most prominent face ahead of the 2024 General elections. But the Congress MP suggested yesterday that the campaign is not about him at all.

โ€œI let go of Rahul Gandhi years ago. Rahul Gandhi is on your mind, not mine. Understand. Try and understand. (on hearing applause) See, someone is clapping. Do you understand? One person has understood. This is the philosophy of your country. Understand it, it will be good for you,โ€the Gandhi scion said in response to a question while interacting with the press.

A journalist had asked him to describe what perspective โ€œRahul Gandhiโ€ was gaining from the people of India during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

To another question on the positive takeaways from the yatra, he said: โ€œIt has taught me immense patience. Earlier I used to get irritated for one or two hours. Now I remain patient up to eight hours.โ€

Another reporter asked whether he should have launched a mass connect campaign like this earlier.

Mr Gandhi responded: โ€œEverything happens on its own time. When the time is right, then it works. It wonโ€™t happen before that. I had thought about such a yatra when I was 25-26.

Even Jairam (Ramesh) ji doesnโ€™t know but I had planned this in detail a year ago. Then because of Covid or other reasons, it didnโ€™t happen. So now is the best time for the yatra.โ€

He called the campaign a โ€œTapasya (penance)โ€ to stand up for the idea of India, โ€œwhich is being damaged and destroyed by the RSS-BJPโ€.

Rahul Gandhiโ€™s comments about โ€œletting go of Rahul Gandhiโ€ were seen by many to align with his refusal to return to the post of Congress chief, which he quit in 2019 after back-to-back election defeats to the rulling  BJP.

In the middle of his yatra, which began weeks before the Congress presidential polls, he firmly disassociated himself from the contest and asserted that he was not in the running for the top post.

Yesterday, he refused to answer a question on leaders who have โ€œdesertedโ€ the Congress in Madhya Pradesh saying: โ€œThis question needs to be asked to the national Congress president (Mallikarjun Kharge) and the Madhya Pradesh Congress leadership.

But in my opinion, we should not repose faith in them (those MLAs) if they had been bought with money to bring down the elected government.โ€

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