Insult to horror faced by KPs: BJP on IFFI row

November 29, 2022 12:30

Bharatiya Janata Party's Amit Malviya on Tuesday compared Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid's condemnation of The Kashmir Files to the denial of Holocaust, the killing of millions of Jews by Hitler's regime.

The party's IT department head said, "For the longest time, people even denied the Holocaust and called Schindler's List a propaganda, just like some are doing to Kashmir Files. Truth eventually triumphs, no matter what."

He noted that the Israeli ambassador has responded to Lapid's criticism of The Kashmir Files, a movie that highlights the violence and sufferings inflicted on Kashmiri Pandits after militancy erupted in the Valley.

BJP's Goa spokesperson Savio Rodrigues also slammed the comments of Nadav Lapid, claiming it was an insult to the "horrors faced by Kashmiri Hindus".

At the closing ceremony of the IFFI on Monday night in Goa, Israeli filmmaker Lapid termed The Kashmir Files as a "propaganda movie" and "vulgar". He had served as the jury head of the film gala.

In his speech, Lapid had said he was "disturbed and shocked" to see the film being screened at the festival.

Reacting to it, Rodrigues in a media statement issued in Goa said, "The statement made by filmmaker and IFFI jury head Nadav Lapid over The Kashmir Files is an insult to the horrors faced by Kashmir Hindus (in the past)."

"You can critique a film artistically but to term the truth about the brutality faced by the Kashmiri Pandits propaganda is shameful," he said.

The BJP leader said he disagrees with Lapid's views on The Kashmir Files.

"Having watched it twice, I did not find it to be 'vulgar or a propaganda'. It merely stated a brutal truth about a brutality that happened to the Kashmiri Pandits," Rodrigues said.

He also offered to get Lapid interact with Kashmiri Hindus.

"Israeli filmmaker Lapid must be ignorant about the truth of the horrors that happened in Kashmir," the BJP leader said.

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