Directed by Vivek Agnihotri, the controversial film The Kashmir Files became a blockbuster. Earning Rs 340 crore gross worldwide against its budget of Rs 20 crore, it became the third-highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2022 behind Brahmastra Part 1 - Shiva and Drishyam 2.
Shiv Sena leader and MP Sanjay Raut has joined a growing number of politicians to criticize the controversial film The Kerala Story over its dubious claim that 32,000 Hindu women in Kerala were forcefully converted by ISIS in recent years. Raut expressed his views on the matter in his weekly column Rokhthok, published in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that The Kashmir Files was made to humiliate one section while announcing the ban on The Kerala Story in her state on Monday.