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Sometimes propaganda can feel like first love. It can be empowering; it can be addictive. | @Plebeian42
#TheKashmirFiles
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@Plebeian42 But unlike first love, propaganda happens again – and again and again.
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@Plebeian42 But if at all – in the country of Godi media, WhatsApp disinformation, and know-it-all uncles – you want some more propaganda, then head to the nearest theatre for #TheKashmirFiles.
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@Plebeian42 Even a cursory look at @vivekagnihotri's filmography reveals something obvious: that he's mostly made C-grade erotica and D-grade propaganda.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri When it comes to Agnihotri's film, the answer lies in the title itself, and the operative word is not "Kashmir" but "Files". Because it has an investigative – a journalistic – tinge to it.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri "Files" also imply something secretive, something suppressed. It almost feels revolutionary and transformative, a fact-finding mission: an audience member has become a collaborator.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri Agnihotri lures you with facts – such as the horrific exodus of Kashmiri Pandits – then distorts reality, mocks it, sprinkles some facts, distorts it, and so on.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri The film is a recruitment brochure for 'ignorant' male Hindus, who have been 'brainwashed' by intellectuals, institutions, and foreign media – people who don't know their own country, who must be rescued and 'educated' to spread the message further.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri At every possible opportunity, the filmmaker underscores the terrorists' religion.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri Given the blatant communal climate in the country for the last many years, these implications are unmistakable: that terrorists = Muslims – or, more accurately, Muslims = terrorists.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri But why stop at adults? Muslim kids marching with guns; a Muslim kid saying, "Get out Pandits"; Muslim kids chanting in a mosque: "Raliv, Galiv, Ya Chaliv [convert, leave, or die]."
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri The author of 'Urban Naxals', Agnihotri, reserves his most memorable spleen not for the terrorists, not for the administration, not for anyone or anything else, but for the students and the professors of ANU.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri None of this is enough, because the film must genuflect to its ultimate master: @narendramodi.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri @narendramodi Modi's endorsement has anyway ensured that it will be a huge box-office success, truly justifying its sordid ends: that there's cash in Kashmir and lies in Files.
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@Plebeian42 @vivekagnihotri @narendramodi Read @Plebeian42's full review of #TheKashmirFiles here:
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