“The Kashmir Files”, collects Rs 228.28 crores after three weeks of screening in India

The most popular movie on the forced and traumatic exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, drawing tremendous crowds in all the cinema halls of the country being lauded and also inviting criticism from some quarters n anti BJP opposition parties has after three weeks’ screening in over more than two thousand theatres, generated a profit of Rs 228.28 crores till yesterday likely to touch three hundreds crores in the coming days.

The movie is made with merely Rs. fifteen crores, meaning – its profit yielded till date,16 times more amount of the initially invested money in its making.

The movie Kashmir Files co produced by Abhishek Aggrawal, Tej Narayan Agarwal and Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and exclusively directed by V. Agnihotri, the director of Tashkent Files as well, has still not reached its saturation point with more and more audience reaching the cinema theaters.

With hundreds of reviews and TV interviews of its director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and eminent actors like Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakravorty, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumar, Chinmay Mandelkar, Puneet Issar and others, the movie highlighting the plight of Kashmiri Pandits and kills of innocent family members viz old aged, children, women etc by Pak sponsored terrorists like Bitta Karate and Yasin Malick etc has created lot of controversy though being lauded by a majority viewers, but criticized by others accusing the film makers for siding with the ruling party to serve its political agenda.

The Congress party has been most vocal criticizing it though prime minister Narendra Modi lauded the film makers saying that the wrong doings and past tortures of Kashmiri Pandits should be fully exposed especially when the previous governments had tried to conceal the hard facts of forced and traumatic exodus of Kashmiri Pundits from Srinagar who numbered about five lakhs.

There had been incidents of affected families literary crying, sobbing and weeping inside the picture halls raising Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogans demanding the reopening of the case against Hurriyat leader Yasin Mullick and Bitta Karate.

However, while Yasin Mullick is in jail Bitta Karate, who had openly admitted while speaking to media of killing twenty Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 was released on bail after being behind bars for 16 years.

There are reports that the government is reopening the cases against these culprits after screening of The Kashmir Files.

The movie having collected about Rs. 228. 28 crores in three weeks was earlier screened in several foreign countries as well drawing massive audience.

The former chairman of Film and Television Institute in India Anupam Kher and recipient of two national and eight film fare awards is an actor, producer n director having acted in over 500 films till now and is in BJP while Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, director, tilted towards the saffron party, eminent actor Mithun Chakravorty too is in BJP. There had also been demands that a part of proceeds of the movie should be given for the welfare of Kashmiri Pundits.