Vivek Agnihotri slams Shashi Tharoor for sharing media report on Singapore banning Kashmir Files citing ‘one-sided portrayal of Muslims’
Tharoor wrote, “Film promoted by India’s ruling party, #KashmirFiles, banned in Singapore.” Quoting Tharoor, Agnihotri said, “Singapore is the most regressive censor in the world. It even banned The Last Temptations of Jesus Christ.”
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New Delhi, May 10: Director Vivek Agnihotri responded to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor who used Singapore’s ban on The Kashmir Files movie to target the Modi government. Tharoor shared a media report mentioning the film would not get classification in Singapore for ‘one-sided portrayal of Muslims’. A tweet by Shashi Tharoor triggered a new battle between the filmmaker and the politician.
He wrote, “Film promoted by India’s ruling party, #KashmirFiles, banned in Singapore.” Quoting Tharoor, Agnihotri said, “Singapore is the most regressive censor in the world. It even banned The Last Temptations of Jesus Christ.”
The report Tharoor shared says, “A movie on the exodus of Hindus from the disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir region will be banned in Singapore.” Tharoor had cropped the portion where the report mentioned Kashmir as a ‘disputed region’ and shared only the portion that suited his agenda.
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The Infocomm Media Development Authority, which is a statutory board under the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information, has refused classification for The Kashmir Files.
In a follow-up Tweet, Agnihotri shared some screenshots of late Sunanda Pushkar, where she had mentioned that she was asked by her husband (Shashi Tharoor) not to speak on Kashmir. Pushkar was a Kashmiri Hindu herself.
Agnihotri said, “Singapore has one of the most regressive censor boards. Singapore’s censor board also banned the movie Badhai Do which talked about the LGBTQ community. Only films made by Karan Johar and his likes are approved in Singapore. If Karan Johar makes ‘The Hotel Leela Files’, it will definitely get approval in Singapore.”
Actor Anupam Kher, too, hit out at Shashi Tharoor and asked him to "show some sensitivity towards Kashmiri Pandits for Sunanda's sake".