Shashi Tharoor-Vivek Agnihotri Fight Over 'The Kashmir Files' Ban In Singapore; Here's What Happened

Bollywood movie 'The Kashmir Files' may have proved to be one of the biggest blockbusters of 2022, but the controversies around the film are far from ending.?

On Tuesday, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and MP Shashi Tharoor engaged in a war of words on Twitter.

The debate began after the former union minister posted that the ‘Kashmir Files’ film had been banned in Singapore for being “provocative” and “one-sided.”

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Earlier today, the Thiruvananthapuram MP took to Twitter to say Tharoor took to Twitter to share a news article and wrote,

?“Film promoted by India’s ruling party, #KashmirFiles, banned in Singapore.”?

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Reacting to Tharoor's tweet, 'The Kashmir Files' director Agnihotri shared a list of popular films that have been banned in Singapore but hailed worldwide, calling Singapore the “most regressive censor in the world.”

“Dear fopdoodle, gnashnab @ShashiTharoor, FYI, Singapore is the most regressive censor in the world,” Agnihotri wrote, tagging Tharoor.?

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“It even banned The Last Temptations of Jesus Christ (ask your madam). Even a romantic film called #TheLeelaHotelFiles will be banned. Pl stop making fun of Kashmiri Hindu Genocide,” Agnihotri wrote.?

Things started getting heated up after Agnihotri asked whether the late wife of Tharoor, Sunanda Pushkar was a Kashmiri Hindu and that the Congress MP should delete his tweet and apologize to his late wife's soul.?

?“Hey @ShashiTharoor, Is this true that Late Sunanda Pushkar was a Kashmiri Hindu? Is the enclosed SS true? If yes, then in Hindu tradition, to respect the dead, you must delete your tweet and apologize to her soul,” Agnihotri wrote.

Bollywood actor Anupam Kher too, waded into the spat by sharing a screenshot of a Twitter thread of the late Sunanda Pushkar and asking Tharoor to “show some sensitivity towards Kashmiri Pandits for Sunanda’s sake.”

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Kher wrote:

“Dear @ShashiTharoor! Your callousness towards #KashmiriHindus genocide is tragic. If nothing else, for #Sunanda’s sake, who was a Kashmiri herself, you should show some sensitivity towards #KashmiriPandits & not feel victorious about a country banning #TheKashmirFiles!” Kher posted along with a broken heart emoji.?

After Anupam Kher and Agnihotri wrote back to Tharoor, he posted a statement. He urged them to not drag his late wife.

?‘The Kashmir Files,’ on the life of Kashmiri pandits during the 1990 Kashmir insurgency, is based on first-generation video interviews of victims of the Kashmiri massacre, making an account of their pain, suffering, struggle, and trauma.?

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The film starred veteran actors Anupam Kher and Mithun Chakraborty as well as Pallavi Joshi and Darshan Kumaar in pivotal roles.

(With inputs from ANI)

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