December 4,2022: Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, whose comments terming ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “vulgar” and “propaganda” led to a row, has now got support from three others jury members of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa.
A statement posted on Twitter by jury member Jinko Gotoh, along with Pascale Chavance and Javier Angulo Barturen said the entire jury knew and agreed with what Mr Lapid said as jury chief.
This leaves only Sudipto Sen, the lone Indian filmmaker on the IFFI International Competition jury claiming that Mr Lapid made the statement “in his personal capacity”.
Mr Lapid has since said he did not mean to deny the tragedy of Kashmiri Pandits, but had only commented on the movie’s “cinematic manipulations”, and that the tragedy “deserves a serious movie”.
Vivek Agnihotri, director of the film that has made box-office records since its release in March, has alleged that Mr Lapid denied the tragedy of Pandits, who had to leave Kashmir due to terrorism in the 1990s. Anupam Kher, the lead actor, alleged a conspiracy.
This was underlined by the three fellow jurors in their joint statement.
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Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, whose comments terming ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “vulgar” and “propaganda” led to a row, has now got support from three others jury members of the IFFA, Goa
December 4,2022: Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, whose comments terming ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “vulgar” and “propaganda” led to a row, has now got support from three others jury members of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa.
A statement posted on Twitter by jury member Jinko Gotoh, along with Pascale Chavance and Javier Angulo Barturen said the entire jury knew and agreed with what Mr Lapid said as jury chief.
This leaves only Sudipto Sen, the lone Indian filmmaker on the IFFI International Competition jury claiming that Mr Lapid made the statement “in his personal capacity”.
Mr Lapid has since said he did not mean to deny the tragedy of Kashmiri Pandits, but had only commented on the movie’s “cinematic manipulations”, and that the tragedy “deserves a serious movie”.
Vivek Agnihotri, director of the film that has made box-office records since its release in March, has alleged that Mr Lapid denied the tragedy of Pandits, who had to leave Kashmir due to terrorism in the 1990s. Anupam Kher, the lead actor, alleged a conspiracy.
This was underlined by the three fellow jurors in their joint statement.