Without Much expectations and promotions, The recent outing from Bollywood ‘The Kashmir Files’ is having good run and collected unbelievable numbers in Indian Cinema’s history for such a low budget film. It is really hard to believe just with word of mouth publicity and also with the share fare controversies, Kashmir Files has shocked the box office. Who would have believed a low budget film without any star cast or with almost zero advertisement will become such a huge success and would collect such huge numbers before the release.
The way the movie is performing in the second week at the box office is putting experts and even trade analysts in shock. This low budget Bollywood film is doing exceptionally well in northern states given the fact that it was released only in the Hindi language.
To be honest The kashmir files is niether a feel good movie or a commercial one or even the movie does not have any star actor. Then why people are turning to the theatres?
The reason for this is the topic or the content of the movie itself is the main point.The fact that this storyline, which depicts events from the perspective of Kashmiri Pandits, has never been spoken in the past so openly. None of us could say what the true events are? The makers of the film nither not concerned with truth or the political correctness telling the story, and this is precisely why it became a success.
The kashmir Files movie is having fare share of supporters and haters. The supporters of the film include some of the famous personalities in the country like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP Chief Minister, MPs, and other Hindu group members.
While the oppostin leaders in the country make it to the haters list of ” The Kashmir Files”. Major section of haters of this film bashing the makers for false propaganda spreading trough the movie.
Whatever it may, the whole INDIA is made aware of the sad truth of Kashmir and the impact non -Muslim Kashmirs had over the years and we bluntly ignored for years. Thanks to The Kashmir Files, Now every one is talking about it. A section of people who watched the movie finds it difficult to believe that the movie based on true events because the victims of the incidents never openly confirmed it.
Are these incidents really happened ? or just makers want to mint some money potreying to be true. A number of videos have appeared on social media showing Kashmiri Pandits crying and breaking down after seeing the film in theatres. Apart from Trauma, the reason for this is the film’s direct acknowledgement of a number of real-life recorded instances, which are depicted in raw, brutal detail.
Here are four souch examples.
1. Bitta Karate interview
An interview scenewhich is show in in the opening of The Kashmir Files’ trailer which is exactly a frame-by-frame copy of Bitta Karate’s true confession, in which he acknowledged murdering at least 20-25 Kashmiri Pandits. You can watch both YouTube video below.
2. The Killing of BK Ganjoo in a rice drum
Anupam Kher’s son being shot left, right, and centre inside a rice drumIn one of the scenes in the movie. also Anupam Kher’s wife being given the same rice mixed with her husband’s blood by terrorists. This scene is also based on a true story involving the murder of a telecom engineer BK Ganjoo.
March, 1990. Terrorists came for BK Ganjoo. He hid inside a rice barrel. His Muslim neighbour informed on him.
Ganjoo was shot dead. Rice laced with his blood was fed to his wife. Here, @sunandavashisht in her Senate testimony recounts the incident, captured in #TheKashmirFiles. pic.twitter.com/CzJeT0VHJK
— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) March 8, 2022
3. Girija Tickoo’s horrific rape and murder with a carpenter’s saw
Sharda, played by Bhasha Sumbli in the film, dies a terrible death that may be the most brutal ever seen in a Bollywood film where she is cut into half will throw you back to the case of Girija Tickoo, who was raped before getting killed in a similar manner. After watching the film premier, her niece shared a post of social media account Instagram sharing the horrific incident.
View this post on Instagram
4. The 1998 Wandhama Massacre
The film’s last sequence ressembles terrible Wandhama massacre of 1998, in which 25 Hindhus of Kashmir were slaughtered in the Wandhama town . Also Four children & nine women were among the dead in the same incident. A twitter user shared a massage of his father who worked as journalist when the incident happened. check out this tweet…
Message from my father about #TheKashmirFiles 💔 pic.twitter.com/fF5UDgAx5L
— Samay Raina (@ReheSamay) March 13, 2022
There are many more references to real-life situations in the film, as anyone who reads historical records on the Kashmiri Pandit genocide would see. The film has been gaining traction at the box office, and if it continues on its current trajectory, it may wind up shattering a slew of surprising records.
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