In telling the story of the Pandits’ brutal expulsion from the Valley, Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files ends up caricaturing voices of dissent. - Issue Date: Mar 28, 2022
The Kashmir Files has the right noise around the factual statistics on the genocide that happened in 1990 in Kashmir. Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri along with his actress-wife Pallavi Joshi shot a 20-min documentary that showed the pain of real Kashmiri Pandits, who escaped from the massacre. The film that has the runtime of around 2 hrs 40 minutes fails to translate the grief on the big canvas