Israeli filmmaker calls ‘The Kashmir Files’ a “vulgar propaganda,” Do you agree?

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid slammed the 53rd IFFI organisers for screening popular Hindi film ‘The Kashmir Files’ in an international competition.

Lapid stated they were “disturbed and astonished” to see the movie among the 15 competing films.

Shameless statement on The Kashmir Files by someone who comes across as illiterate. Will this Israeli film director Nadav Lapid call Holocaust a propaganda?

Will he call Schindler’s List and The Pianist as propaganda films? @netanyahu @NaorGilonpic.twitter.com/yuUF8pl5xs

— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) November 28, 2022

Lapid, who is well-known for his anti-Israel establishment and pro-Palestine views, said he was speaking on behalf of the IFFI jury. He observed:

“We were all of us disturbed and shocked by the 15th film, ‘The Kashmir Files’, that felt to us like a propaganda, vulgar movie inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival.”

Filmmaker Sudipto Sen tweeted that Lapid doesn’t represent the views of IFFI jury and his statement is personal.

#IFFI #IFFI2022 @nfdcindia @ianuragthakur pic.twitter.com/GBhtw0tH6C

— Sudipto SEN (@sudiptoSENtlm) November 28, 2022

Israeli envoy to India Naor Gilon slammed Lapid and apologized for the conduct of his countryman at the 2022 International Film Festival of India in Goa.

An open letter to #NadavLapid following his criticism of #KashmirFiles. It’s not in Hebrew because I wanted our Indian brothers and sisters to be able to understand. It is also relatively long so I’ll give you the bottom line first. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED. Here’s why: pic.twitter.com/8YpSQGMXIR

— Naor Gilon (@NaorGilon) November 29, 2022

Lapid is known for producing incendiary and provocative films that are meant for the Left-leaning festival circuit audiences. In an earlier interview, Lapid said: “I think that art or cinema should speak to audiences on a different level. They can bring change by shaking an audience member to their core.”

It is surprising when an Indian filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri tries to tell the true and shocking story of the exodus and genocide of Kashmiri Hindus at the hands of Pakistan-sponsored Islamist terrorists, it appears as “propaganda”. 

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