The Kashmir Files, directed by Vivek Agnihotri, is currently the subject of a new controversy after Nadav Lapid, the head of the IFFI jury, referred to the film as “vulgar” and “inappropriate” during the festival’s closing ceremony and stated that the spirit of the festival can undoubtedly accept a critical discussion as well, which is necessary for art and life.
According to Lapid, who spoke from the perspective of the IFFI jury, 14 of the international films had a cinematic quality.”All of us were disturbed and shocked by the 15th film The Kashmir Files” “I feel totally comfortable openly sharing these feelings here with you on this stage. Since, the spirit of the festival can surely also accept a critical discussion, which is essential for art and life,” he said.
“I would like to thank the head of the festival and the director of the programming for the cinematic richness of the programme, for its diversity, for its complexity. It was intense. We saw seven films in the debutant competition, and 15 films in the international competition, the front window of the festival. 14 out of them had cinematic qualities, defaults and evoked vivid discussions,” Lapid might be seen in a viral festival video making debatable comments about the movie. The Israeli director made the statement at the festival’s closing ceremony, one of the festival’s PR representatives told ANI.
Israeli filmmaker who criticised “The Kashmir Files” as “propaganda” and “vulgar film” at the International Film Festival of India in Goa today received harsh criticism from Israel’s ambassador to India. In a “open letter” sent on Twitter the day after jury chair Nadav Lapid criticised the movie at the festival’s closing ceremony, envoy Naor Gilon also expressed his regret to India.
Gilon claimed that Lapid had “worst way” exploited the Indian judges’ panel invitation. He added, “In Indian culture they say that a guest is like God. You have abused in the worst way the Indian invitation to chair the panel of judges at @IFFIGoa as well as the trust, respect and warm hospitality they have bestowed on you,”
Further added, “I’m no film expert but I do know that it’s insensitive and presumptuous to speak about historic events before deeply studying them and which are an open wound in India because many of the involved are still around and still paying a price,” The envoy advised Israelis to maintain their modesty because Indians consume a significant amount of Israeli media, including the Fauda TV series.
The organisers chose not to respond to the jury chair’s criticism of the film. The Kashmir Files, which hit theatres earlier this year, focused on the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits and the Hindu exodus in the 1990s. Anupam Kher garnered praise for his portrayal, and the film went on to become one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of 2022. Stay tuned with box office World Wide for latest news, hindi box office news, Bollywood news, ott news, latest bollywood news and latest box office news.
