Thread by @neelakantha

Watched #Shikara.
It has secularised the #HinduGenocide in #Kashmir and romanticised it for the mega bucks it will make.
Our homes and murders are a mere prop in this story.
Massacres, rapes and vandalised temples must've been too gory to qualify for even a prop, in a love story.

It reeks of the bhaichara politics of @VVCFilms right through
Blaming American guns
Disparaging the #Ayodhya movement
Rationalising #Jihad and cleverly masking its underlying #HinduHate
Glossing over the judicial apathy
Mocking at the help rendered by a 'Party' in the camps...

Airbrushed #Islam as a non-issue
Underplayed #Jihad as mere stray events
Exaggerated exceptions of individual warmth over deep society wide hostility.
Gross simplification of the issue of our return.
#Shikara like #Padmavat turns #HinduGenocide into entertainment for commerce.

"The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits" is how @VVCFilms promoted his film #Shikara

On the eve of its release, the description was changed to
"A timeless love story in the worst of times"

Selling mushy pulpy romance in the name of our genocide is the unkindest cut ever expected.

1942 A Love Story
by @VVCFilms around the golden jubilee of Quit India movement, is recalled for "Ek ladki ki dekha toh aisa laga"
Likewise, on 30yrs of our exodus, #Shikara hums "Tujhe jo ek pal na dekha toh mar jaye hum"
Sell romance for a living if you must.
Not our genocide!

Divya Razdan's anguish over #Shikara, yesterday, was not an isolated view as 'propagated' by the team @VVCFilms
Simultaneously, the #KPrefugees in the camps of #Jammu reject this film, unambiguously, for its attempt to deny #HinduGenocide. @ResearchBharat

https://twitter.com/kashmiriRefuge/status/1225835986787000320?s=19