There have been many?controversies ever since the 'The Kashmir Files' was announced. Despite all the noise, chatter, and debates, the movie managed to steer clear and get a release in Indian theatres.?
The movie is doing great at the box office, to everyone's surprise. Even without any backing from a big banner production house of an A-lister, the film is earning praises.?
Owing to the popularity and the significance of a movie like 'The Kashmir Files,' the Madhya Pradesh government today announced that policemen in the state would be granted leave to watch the recently-released film.
State Home Minister Narottam Mishra spoke to reporters and confirmed that Madhya Pradesh police officers would be given leave to watch the movie.?
?"I have just told the DGP to grant a leave whenever any policeman in the state wants to go watch 'The Kashmir Files' with their family," Mr. Mishra told reporters.?
He said that the government decided to make it tax-free as the movie deserves to be watched by maximum people.?Goa caretaker Chief Minister Pramod Sawant also lauded 'The Kashmir Files' and said that the film would be screened with maximum possible shows in the state.?
"The IMDb page of #TheKashmirFiles says: "Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied". They have themselves dipped the ratings."?
Director Vivek Agnihotri has reacted after IMDb switched rating method upon noticing ¡®unusual voting activity on The Kashmir Files' page.?
?The page states that the film received around 131,433 votes and, owing to the 'unusual' activity, gave the film an average rating of 8.3 / 10.?
On its opening weekend, the film collected ?27 crores.
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