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With #TheKashmirFiles, @vivekagnihotri has become the BJP's favourite filmmaker and its messaging and aesthetics are in full tune with the party's own. | @bombaywallah
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah When was the last time a prime minister spoke up so fulsomely about a film and lashed out against its critics?
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah Chief ministers of many BJP states have given it tax exemptions.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah The film blames the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits – not necessarily in this order – the Congress, liberals, human rightswallas, Naxal sympathisers and of course Muslims – in other words, the usual suspects blamed for the ills of this country.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah JNU, according to Agnihotri, is a hotbed of enemies of the nation.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah Agnihotri blames Rajiv Gandhi but the truth is that the BJP-supported V.P. Singh was in power in Delhi and governor Jagmohan in Srinagar, fully backed by the BJP (he later joined the party) who had a free hand.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah #TheKashmirFiles is an angry WhatsApp rant, with no regard for facts, brought to the big screen. The word 'genocide' is freely thrown about, leaving no doubt that the scale of the killings was much bigger, even though it wasn't.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah This clearly syncs well with the BJP's own worldview and its list of enemies of the nation – anti-nationals who are nothing short of treasonous.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah It is exploitative in the extreme and made to rouse emotions and build up a particular mood against one particular community.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah Watching the film, it is not difficult to get carried away against the "murderous Muslims" who show not a shred of humanity.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah Not surprisingly, @MehboobaMufti, whose father Mufti Mohammed Syed was the Union home minister, has said the BJP is weaponising the pain of the Pandits.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah @MehboobaMufti For Agnihotri, the list of his enemies and jealous rivals does not stop there.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah @MehboobaMufti He has been going all guns ablaze against those who he thinks have not acknowledged his commercially hit film sufficiently — his own colleagues in the film industry, the media and film critics specifically.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah @MehboobaMufti The implication is that they have an inbuilt prejudice against him.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah @MehboobaMufti There is little doubt that the BJP is going to milk #TheKashmirFiles for whatever it is worth.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah @MehboobaMufti It will also help them by drowning out legitimate questions about why even BJP governments in Delhi and now central rule in Kashmir failed to help the beleaguered Pandits get some form of justice.
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@vivekagnihotri @bombaywallah @MehboobaMufti Read @bombaywallah's full review of #TheKashmirFiles here:
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