Israeli director beneath hearth for feedback on ‘The Kashmir Files’, worldwide jury says ‘private opinion’ 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Israeli director and IFFI worldwide jury chairperson Nadav Lapid was on the centre of livid debate on Tuesday for his feedback on ‘The Kashmir Files’ with Israel’s ambassador saying he abused India’s invitation and jury members distancing themselves from his views.

As the controversy grew, a day after the director described the ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “propaganda” and “vulgar”, BJP leaders, actors akin to Anupam Kher and Ranvir Shorey and the movie’s director Vivek Agnihotri additionally joined the discourse towards him.

There have been some voices, together with from the Congress and a few within the movie fraternity, who spoke up in his defence.

Lapid’s shock feedback on the much-discussed movie got here on the closing ceremony of the 53rd version of the International Film Festival of India on Monday attended by Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur in addition to actors Akshay Kumar and Asha Parekh.

Agnihotri has in contrast ‘The Kashmir Files’, which portrays the exodus of Kashmir Pandits from the Valley on account of militancy within the early Nineteen Nineties, to Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic ‘Schindler’s List’.

The 1993 Oscar winner was referenced by many individuals, together with Israel Ambassador to India Naor Gilon who wrote an open letter put out in a sequence of tweets.

“As a son of a holocaust survivor, I was extremely hurt to see reactions in India to you that are doubting Schindler’s List, the Holocaust and worse. I unequivocally condemn such statements. There is no justification. It does show the sensitivity of the Kashmir issue here,” he stated.

Gilon added that Lapid — who’s seen as an anti-establishment director — ought to be “ashamed” as he had “abused in the worst way” the Indian invitation to him to chair the panel of judges.

‘The Kashmir Files’, which polarised opinions following its launch in March and went on to grow to be a blockbuster hit, was screened at IFFI on November 22 as a part of the Indian panorama part.

Indian movie director Sudipto Sen, who was a part of the worldwide movie jury, distanced himself and different members from Lapid’s assertion.

“Whatever has been said by IFFI 2022 Jury Chairman Mr Nadav Lapid about the film Kashmir Files, from the stage of the closing ceremony of 53rd IFFI was completely his personal opinion,” Sen wrote in a observe shared on Twitter.

#IFFI #IFFI2022 @nfdcindia @ianuragthakur pic.twitter.com/GBhtw0tH6C

— Sudipto SEN (@sudiptoSENtlm) November 28, 2022

Sen stated he and different jury members, together with Spanish documentary filmmaker Javier Angulo Barturen and French movie editor Pascale Chavance, made no point out of their “likes or dislikes”.

Comments by Lapid have been made in his “personal capacity”, he pressured.

BJP’s Amit Malviya in contrast Lapid’s condemnation of ‘The Kashmir Files’ to the denial of the Holocaust.

“For the longest time, people even denied the Holocaust and called Schindler’s List propaganda, just like some are doing to Kashmir Files. The truth eventually triumphs, no matter what,” the get together’s IT division head stated.

His colleague, BJP’s Goa spokesperson Savio Rodrigues, stated Lapid’s assertion “is an insult to the horrors faced by Kashmir Hindus (in the past)”.

“You can critique a film artistically but to term the truth about the brutality faced by the Kashmiri Pandits propaganda is shameful,” he added.

Agnihotri additionally spoke about ‘fact’ in a cryptic media put up and stated “it is the most dangerous thing” as it might probably make individuals lie.

Anupam Kher, who starred in “The Kashmir Files”, added that fact will at all times trump falsehood.

He additionally shared a sequence of stills from “Schindler’s List”, a real life story about German industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved greater than a thousand principally Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by using them in his factories throughout World War II.

His put up additionally included an image of himself in “The Kashmir Files”.

Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit referred to as on Union minister Thakur to hunt “serious action” towards Lapid and stated selecting as worldwide jury head was a lapse on the a part of the pageant organisers.

“Dear @ianuragthakur ji . I as a #KashmiriPandit & who is a victim of genocide seek serious actn agnst Mr.#NadavLapid Jury head of IFFI 2022 fr calling d depiction of our tragedy as vulgar . Hs hs added salt to our wounds&hence shld b made to tender a apology . #KashmirFiles (sic),” he wrote.

Dear @ianuragthakur ji .
I as a #KashmiriPandit & who’s a sufferer of genocide search a severe actn agnst Mr. #NadavLapid Jury head of IFFI 2022 fr calling d depiction of our tragedy as vulgar .
Hs hs added salt to our wounds&therefore shld b made to tender a apology .#KashmirFiles

— Ashoke Pandit (@ashokepandit) November 28, 2022

There have been additionally some who spoke up for Paris-based Lapid, identified for his award-winning movie ‘Synonyms’ .

Hate will get referred to as out, finally, stated Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate.

“PM Modi, his govt, BJP, the RW ecosystem feverishly promoted ‘The Kashmir Files’. A movie rejected by the International Film Festival Of India. Jury Head Nadav Lapid called it a “propaganda, vulgar film – inappropriate for the movie pageant’,” Shrinate tweeted.

Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi shared a video hyperlink of the Israeli filmmaker’s speech the place he criticised “The Kashmir Files”.

“A sensitive issue of justice for Kashmiri Pandits was sacrificed at the altar of propaganda. This is a must-listen segment at the #IFFIGoa2022,” Chaturvedi stated.

Actor Swara Bhasker, identified for being unabashedly vocal about her opinions, shared a hyperlink to the information story about Lapid’s remarks on the closing ceremony of the movie gala.

“Apparently it’s pretty clear to the world..” Bhasker wrote within the caption.

With Lapid’s remark, ‘The Kashmir Files’, written and directed by Agnihotri and produced by Zee Studios, is again within the information.

The movie was referred to as out for its problematic politics by a bit of critics and authors when it was launched however carried out exceptionally properly on the field workplace by minting over Rs 330 crore.

The film additionally sparked debate amongst political events after a number of BJP-ruled states, together with Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, gave it an exemption from leisure tax.

NEW DELHI: Israeli director and IFFI worldwide jury chairperson Nadav Lapid was on the centre of livid debate on Tuesday for his feedback on ‘The Kashmir Files’ with Israel’s ambassador saying he abused India’s invitation and jury members distancing themselves from his views.

As the controversy grew, a day after the director described the ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “propaganda” and “vulgar”, BJP leaders, actors akin to Anupam Kher and Ranvir Shorey and the movie’s director Vivek Agnihotri additionally joined the discourse towards him.

There have been some voices, together with from the Congress and a few within the movie fraternity, who spoke up in his defence.

Lapid’s shock feedback on the much-discussed movie got here on the closing ceremony of the 53rd version of the International Film Festival of India on Monday attended by Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur in addition to actors Akshay Kumar and Asha Parekh.

Agnihotri has in contrast ‘The Kashmir Files’, which portrays the exodus of Kashmir Pandits from the Valley on account of militancy within the early Nineteen Nineties, to Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic ‘Schindler’s List’.

The 1993 Oscar winner was referenced by many individuals, together with Israel Ambassador to India Naor Gilon who wrote an open letter put out in a sequence of tweets.

“As a son of a holocaust survivor, I was extremely hurt to see reactions in India to you that are doubting Schindler’s List, the Holocaust and worse. I unequivocally condemn such statements. There is no justification. It does show the sensitivity of the Kashmir issue here,” he stated.

Gilon added that Lapid — who’s seen as an anti-establishment director — ought to be “ashamed” as he had “abused in the worst way” the Indian invitation to him to chair the panel of judges.

‘The Kashmir Files’, which polarised opinions following its launch in March and went on to grow to be a blockbuster hit, was screened at IFFI on November 22 as a part of the Indian panorama part.

Indian movie director Sudipto Sen, who was a part of the worldwide movie jury, distanced himself and different members from Lapid’s assertion.

“Whatever has been said by IFFI 2022 Jury Chairman Mr Nadav Lapid about the film Kashmir Files, from the stage of the closing ceremony of 53rd IFFI was completely his personal opinion,” Sen wrote in a observe shared on Twitter.

#IFFI #IFFI2022 @nfdcindia @ianuragthakur pic.twitter.com/GBhtw0tH6C
— Sudipto SEN (@sudiptoSENtlm) November 28, 2022
Sen stated he and different jury members, together with Spanish documentary filmmaker Javier Angulo Barturen and French movie editor Pascale Chavance, made no point out of their “likes or dislikes”.

Comments by Lapid have been made in his “personal capacity”, he pressured.

BJP’s Amit Malviya in contrast Lapid’s condemnation of ‘The Kashmir Files’ to the denial of the Holocaust.

“For the longest time, people even denied the Holocaust and called Schindler’s List propaganda, just like some are doing to Kashmir Files. The truth eventually triumphs, no matter what,” the get together’s IT division head stated.

His colleague, BJP’s Goa spokesperson Savio Rodrigues, stated Lapid’s assertion “is an insult to the horrors faced by Kashmir Hindus (in the past)”.

“You can critique a film artistically but to term the truth about the brutality faced by the Kashmiri Pandits propaganda is shameful,” he added.

Agnihotri additionally spoke about ‘fact’ in a cryptic media put up and stated “it is the most dangerous thing” as it might probably make individuals lie.

Anupam Kher, who starred in “The Kashmir Files”, added that fact will at all times trump falsehood.

He additionally shared a sequence of stills from “Schindler’s List”, a real life story about German industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved greater than a thousand principally Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by using them in his factories throughout World War II.

His put up additionally included an image of himself in “The Kashmir Files”.

Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit referred to as on Union minister Thakur to hunt “serious action” towards Lapid and stated selecting as worldwide jury head was a lapse on the a part of the pageant organisers.

“Dear @ianuragthakur ji . I as a #KashmiriPandit & who is a victim of genocide seek serious actn agnst Mr.#NadavLapid Jury head of IFFI 2022 fr calling d depiction of our tragedy as vulgar . Hs hs added salt to our wounds&hence shld b made to tender a apology . #KashmirFiles (sic),” he wrote.

Dear @ianuragthakur ji .
I as a #KashmiriPandit & who’s a sufferer of genocide search a severe actn agnst Mr. #NadavLapid Jury head of IFFI 2022 fr calling d depiction of our tragedy as vulgar .
Hs hs added salt to our wounds&therefore shld b made to tender a apology .#KashmirFiles
— Ashoke Pandit (@ashokepandit) November 28, 2022
There have been additionally some who spoke up for Paris-based Lapid, identified for his award-winning movie ‘Synonyms’ .

Hate will get referred to as out, finally, stated Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate.

“PM Modi, his govt, BJP, the RW ecosystem feverishly promoted ‘The Kashmir Files’. A movie rejected by the International Film Festival Of India. Jury Head Nadav Lapid called it a “propaganda, vulgar film – inappropriate for the movie pageant’,” Shrinate tweeted.

Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi shared a video hyperlink of the Israeli filmmaker’s speech the place he criticised “The Kashmir Files”.

“A sensitive issue of justice for Kashmiri Pandits was sacrificed at the altar of propaganda. This is a must-listen segment at the #IFFIGoa2022,” Chaturvedi stated.

Actor Swara Bhasker, identified for being unabashedly vocal about her opinions, shared a hyperlink to the information story about Lapid’s remarks on the closing ceremony of the movie gala.

“Apparently it’s pretty clear to the world..” Bhasker wrote within the caption.

With Lapid’s remark, ‘The Kashmir Files’, written and directed by Agnihotri and produced by Zee Studios, is again within the information.

The movie was referred to as out for its problematic politics by a bit of critics and authors when it was launched however carried out exceptionally properly on the field workplace by minting over Rs 330 crore.

The film additionally sparked debate amongst political events after a number of BJP-ruled states, together with Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, gave it an exemption from leisure tax.