While Vivek Agnihotri made pots of money on his movie, he accomplished what terrorists could not do and read on how he did it.
Vivek Agnihotri, Pallavi Joshi buy an apartment on the 30th floor in Mumbai in Versova and is reportedly priced at about ₹18 crore.
Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and actor Pallavi Joshi have bought an apartment worth ₹17.92 crores in Mumbai’s Versova, as per a new report. The director, whose film The Kashmir Files, is one of highest grossing Indian films of the year, reportedly paid a stamp duty of ₹1.07 crore for the registration of the deal.
As per the report, Pallavi and Vivek Agnihotri’s new apartment in a building named Parthenon is on the 30th floor, is spread over a 3,258 sq ft area, and comes with three car parking slots. According to the report, the couple bought the property directly from the developer of the project, Ecstasy Realty.
According to a report in Economic Times, Vivek and Pallavi paid stamp duty worth ₹1.07 crore at the time of registration of the deal on September 27. The value of the apartment was a little over ₹55,000 per sq ft, added the report.
Directed by Vivek, The Kashmir Files, had net domestic collections of ₹252 crores. The film had released in theatres on March 11 this year. It portrays the story of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley. Also written by Vivek, the film stars Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Darshan Kumaar, Pallavi Joshi, and Chinmay Mandlekar.
While of course, it is Agnihotri’s effort and money and he can spend it where he wants, immense criticism is rising for him. Earlier in the year, j Shakeel Hasan Shamsi author and editor of Editor of Daily Inquilab wrote an article “How Agnihotri achieved what terrorists could never accomplish” In his article he shared how through a film named Kashmir Files, it is being told that the Muslims were targeting the Hindus there, not the struggle of Indianness and terrorism in Kashmir. Rabid virulent chants throughout India are starting to spread hate between Hindus and Muslims.
This film is being promoted by every person who believes in spreading Hindu-Muslim animosity. While the terrorists wanted the world to see the Kashmir issue as a Hindu-Muslim conflict, they could not do so because the terrorists killed far more Muslims than Hindus. Through the film, Vivek Agnihotri dangerously swerved the pendulum of truth to a lie where he painted the Kashmir Pundit massacre and exodus as Hindu-Muslim combat and highlighted the Kashmiri Hindu deaths while paling out the massacre of Kashmir Muslims, which far outnumbered the Kashmiri Hindus.
While this film was being aired, in and outside movie halls and in mega shopping malls, frenzied mobs started chanting against Muslims. After the screening of the film in cinema halls, slogans are being raised against Muslims with fresh hatred towards Muslims pouring it, promoted by even political figures in their strange silence over this amid muted courts.
Shakeel Hasan Shamsi wrote, “Since I belong to a class that believes in Hindu-Muslim unity, neither I have seen this film nor will my conscience allow me to watch a film that is designed to break the unity of India.
And now he wants to play with the blood of innocents killed in Morbi”
Vivek Agnihotri buys an apartment worth 18 crores with the money earned from Kashmiri pain.
And now he wants to play with the blood of innocents killed in Morbi https://t.co/8zuty6j4fk
— Mini Nair (@minicnair) November 2, 2022
Vivek Agnihotri has been accused of minting money by capitalizing on the grief of Kashmiri pandits but doing nothing for them to uplift their miseries. His movie, The Kashmir Files actually provoked riots across India and triggered more deaths among the Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir. Over the decades, Kashmiri pandits had never been killed, but mysteriously, after the provocation of the movie, Kashmir pandits started being killed in the valley and they felt unsafe, many started to leave to go to Jammu. Different countries banned the Kashmir Files because they did not encourage communal disharmony. He is accused of doing what terrorists could not, dividing Hindus and Muslims further through his movie, which won him a fortune. His movie did nothing to bridge any gap between Hindus and Muslims and triggered off one side further. He is safe and comfortable, but he left the Kashmiri Pandits situation dicier and shaky after his movie.