Many had questioned the factual accuracy of the movie and the communal tone of the discussion around it.
Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files on Thursday won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, the jury of the 69th National Film Awards announced.
The movie is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to militancy. It was released on March 11 last year.
Many people had questioned the factual accuracy of the film and the communal tone of the discussion around it. For instance, they had pointed out that the Congress was not in power at the Centre when the Pandit exodus occurred and said that the governor of the state who facilitated the flight of the community had been approved by the Bharatiya Janata Party.
On Ram Navami last year, one of the tableaus in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone showed a scene from The Kashmir Files – of a Hindu woman being sawed alive.
