9th February, Mumbai : Prakash Raj, a popular actor in both Bollywood and the South, has recently made headlines for his uncensored thoughts on “Boycott Pathaan” and the contentious movie The Kashmir Files. Recently, a footage from the same speech that he used to criticise the boycott movement and compare it to dogs who merely bark rather than bite appeared on the internet. He continued by disparaging the filmmaker of The Kashmir Files, Vivek Agnihotri, by calling the movie crap.
Since it premiered on television in March of last year, The Kashmir Files has been on the headlines frequently. Later, when Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lipid criticised it as “vulgar propaganda” at a Goa film festival, it made news. The flight of Kashmiri Pandits that took place in the 1990s served as the inspiration for the movie.
Director of The Kashmir Files Vivek Agnihotri responded to the situation on social media by criticising Prakash Raj for his remark. He called him an Urban Naxal and continued by saying that the movie has been keeping him up at night. Vivek Agnihotri shared Prakash Raj’s video from the occasion on Twitter and added the following: “A small, people’s film #TheKashmirFiles has given sleepless nights to #UrbanNaxals so much that one of their Pidi is troubled even after one year, calling its viewer’s barking dogs. And Mr. Andhkaar Raj, how can I get Bhaskar, she/he is all yours. Forever”
Prakash Raj had stated during his presentation at the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters in Kerala, “The Kashmir Files is one of the nonsense films, but we know who produced it. Shameless. International jury spits on them. The director is asking why I am not getting Oscar. He will not even get a Bhaskar. I tell you because there is a sensitive media out there. Here you can do a propaganda film. According to my sources, they have invested around Rs. 2000 crore to only make films like this. But you can’t fool people all the time.”
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