Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files has marked a significant feat at the box office in the post-pandemic era. The film, which was made on a budget of Rs 25 crore, earned more than Rs 200 crore at the box office. Based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley during the Kashmir Insurgency in early 1990s, the film has garnered not just love and praise from the audience in theatres but also on social media.
Many celebs like Karan Johar also praised the film calling it a “movement”. However, Akshay Kumar’s wife and author Twinkle Khanna received backlash for her remarks on the movie, which were termed “insensitive”. The former actress took a jibe at the craze around the film and in her Times of India column, she gave it a flippant mood.
She wrote, “In a meeting at a producer’s office, I am informed that there is a deluge of fresh movie titles being registered as a homage to The Kashmir Files. Since larger cities have already been claimed, now the poor chaps are registering names like Andheri Files, Khar-Danda Files, and even South Bombay Files.”
Further, she joked about the title of the movie and said that she would want to make a film called “Nail Files” based on a disastrous manicure. “8 pm: Mother has invited us over for dinner and while she is fussing over her granddaughter, I inform her that I too have registered a title based on the Kashmir Files wave. ‘I am going to make a movie called Nail File.’ ‘About what? A disastrous manicure,” she wrote.
It seems many netizens were not entertained by Twinkle’s article and trolled her for making such remarks on a film that is based on a sensitive topic.
Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit wrote, “@mrsfunnybones ma’am, you are too late. This film (#KashmirFiles) on the genocide of #KashmiriPandits has already hit the nail on the communal coffin of #IslamicTerrorism. Request you not be so insensitive towards the genocide of 7 lac #KashmiriPandits.”
