MUMBAI: After The Tashkent Files, which was based on the death of former Indian Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri is set to make a film on Kashmiri pundits. Titled Kashmir Files, the film will look into the ‘violent and barbaric ethnic cleansing’ of religious minorities in the valley.
“This is India’s holocaust where at midnight Hindu minorities were asked to leave the Valley. They were specifically asked to leave behind all their property and women. Children were killed with AK-47s, women were raped, men were cut with wood-cutting saws. Houses were burnt. India’s most secular region was converted into an Islamic region controlled with Sharia law. My film is about the sinister politics behind it. Everyone is responsible for such a tragedy,” said Agnihotri, while talking about the film.
Slated to go on floors in the next six months, Kashmir Files will feature ‘some of the finest actors of our time,’ the filmmaker remarked. He added that his team has been researching the subject for the past one year.
“We are planning to form a ‘Project KP Commission’ where we will record first hand testimonials of the victims and also the perpetrators. This will be first of its kind effort in this issue anywhere in the world. I want a fair and unbiased investigation so that we can correct the prejudiced narrative,” notes Agnihotri.