Vivek Agnihotri deactivates Twitter account after receiving death threats for upcoming movie ‘The Kashmir Files’
19 Feb 2022 16:49:01
Mumbai, February 19: Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri has deactivated his Twitter account after receiving death threats and vulgar calls to stop the release of his upcoming movie, ‘The Kashmir Files’. The movie depicts plight of Kashmiri Pandits following 1990 Kashmiri Pandit exodus from the valley.
In 2020, Twitter allegedly shadow-banned Kashmir-based Indian Army’s Chinar Corp’s account for unclear reasons. It has been alleged that the shadow-ban was imposed after the account posted details of a rescue operation in Jammu and Kashmir.
‘The Kashmir Files,’ hailed as one of the most important, current, and untold stories in Indian history was invited by major institutes and organisations in the US for over 30 power-packed screenings and garnered a resounding reaction.
‘The Kashmir Files,’ written and directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, is based on video interviews with first-generation victims of the Kashmir Genocide of the Kashmiri Pandit Community.
The movie goes back to year 1989, when an insurgency began in Kashmir and a majority of Hindus were forced to leave there. According to reports, 100,000 of an estimated Kashmiri Pandit population of 140,000 left between February and March 1990. More of them left in the following years so that, by 2011, only 3,000 families remained there.
Agnihotri penned an open letter, explaining the ordeal he has gone through since he started the campaign #TheKashmirFiles on the site to promote his upcoming movie. He explained how he and his family are being continuously hounded by “Pakistani & Chinese bots” for making an “honest film on the pain and sufferings of our Kashmiri brothers and sisters.”
Last year, on December 15, journalist Aarti Tikoo, a Kashmiri Pandit herself, took to Twitter to raise alarm about Islamic terrorists from Kashmir issuing death threats to her brother. Two days later, on December 17, Twitter India decided to “lock” Aarti Tikoo’s account. The notice that Aarti got said that she could “unlock” her account if she deleted the tweet about her brother getting threats.
In 2020, Twitter allegedly shadow-banned Kashmir-based Indian Army’s Chinar Corp’s account for unclear reasons. It has been alleged that the shadow-ban was imposed after the account posted details of a rescue operation in Jammu and Kashmir.
‘The Kashmir Files,’ hailed as one of the most important, current, and untold stories in Indian history was invited by major institutes and organisations in the US for over 30 power-packed screenings and garnered a resounding reaction.
Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, which is based on the true events of the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir, was held high at the Times Square in New York, for 2 continuous days citing the occasion of 73rd Republic Day.
‘The Kashmir Files,’ written and directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, is based on video interviews with first-generation victims of the Kashmir Genocide of the Kashmiri Pandit Community.
The movie goes back to year 1989, when an insurgency began in Kashmir and a majority of Hindus were forced to leave there. According to reports, 100,000 of an estimated Kashmiri Pandit population of 140,000 left between February and March 1990. More of them left in the following years so that, by 2011, only 3,000 families remained there.