"Someone Had To Speak Up": Israel Filmmaker On 'The Kashmir Files' Remarks
NDTV
Nadav Lapid, head of the international jury at the International Film Festival of India, said 'The Kashmir Files' was "propaganda and vulgar".
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, whose critical remarks on 'The Kashmir Files' movie at a film festival have raised a storm, has stood by them and said "someone has to speak up".
Mr Lapid, the head of the international jury at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, said at the festival's closing ceremony that the Vivek Agnihotri-directed film was "propaganda and vulgar". He said the jury was "disturbed and shocked" at the screening of the film.
"It seemed to us like a propagandist movie inappropriate for an artistic, competitive section of such a prestigious film festival," he added.
The remarks sparked a huge row, with many accusing the award-winning filmmaker of being insensitive towards the suffering of Kashmiri Pandits, who were forced to flee the Valley at the height of militancy in the 90s. Many wondered how someone from a community that faced the horrors of the Holocaust could make such remarks.
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