'If holocaust was right...': Anupam Kher on IFFI row

November 29, 2022 10:05

Veteran actor Anupam Kher on Tuesday said it is "shameful" on the part of IFFI (International Film Festival of India) jury head Nadav Lapid to term his film The Kashmir Files as "propaganda" and "vulgar" at the festival's closing ceremony.

Duiring the closing ceremony of the IFFI on On November 28 Lapid, termed The Kashmir Files a "propaganda, vulgar film", adding that he was "shocked" to see the film in the competition section of such a prestigious film festival.

"If the holocaust was right then the exodus of Kashmiri pandits is also right. This seems pre-planned because immediately after it the tool-kit gang became active. It's shameful for him to make a statement like this even though he comes from a community of Jews who suffered from the holocaust," Kher told ANI.

"So by making a statement like this, he has also pained those people who suffered this tragedy. I would just say may god give him wisdom so that he doesn't use the tragedy of thousands of people to fulfill his aim on stage," he added.

Released earlier this year, the 'The Kashmir Files' was listed in the line-up for IFFI's Indian Panorama segment for the year 2022.

The film is based on the life of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, during the Kashmir insurgency.

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