Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri took to Twitter to respond to a Twitter user who asked him to make The Manipur Files, after the success of The Kashmir Files and The Tashkent Files. This came after the director unveiled the trailer for the web series, The Kashmir Files Unreported.

 

Referring to the subject of The Kashmir Files Unreported, Vivek Agnihotri tweeted, “Indian judiciary stood and stands blind and mute to Kashmiri Hindu Genocide. It failed and still fails to ‘suo moto’ protect the #RightToLife of Kashmiri Hindus as promised in our constitution.”

 

Replying to the post, a user commented, “Don't waste time go and make a movie Manipur Files if you are man enough.”

 

Vivek wrote back to the person, “Thanks for having so much faith in me. Par saari films mujhse hi banwaoge kya yaar? Tumhari ‘Team India’ mein koi ‘man enough’ filmmaker nahin hai kya (But, do you want me to make all the films. Isn't anyone else not man enough)?”

 

 

 

Ethnic violence began in Manipur in the last two months. It all began on May 3 in Churachandpur town of the state after Kuki groups called for protests against a proposal to grant scheduled tribe status to the Meitei community of the state. It led to clashes among the groups, claiming over 150 lives and left over 50,000 injured.

 

Now, a more than two-month-old video from the state went viral in which two tribal women were being paraded naked and molested by a group of men in the state. The video has now gone viral online and sparked massive public outrage.