Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, known for the direction of ‘The Kashmir Files’, talked about America’s perception about the India-Pakistan struggle. In a special interview with India Today Digital, the popular director shared that the people of America did not know about Kashmir and its issues.

He mentioned that the West woke up Kashmir after the Pahgam terror attack on 22 April, claiming 26 innocent lives, and India’s vengeance with accurate attacks against nine terrorist centers in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

The 51 -year -old said, “We need to make more films on Kashmir and our message needs to express our message as a way to use it as our soft power to fight the world and make so many films on Holocosts that no one in the world dared to say a word against Holocost.”

“In India, we keep inquiring, argue around it (Kashmir), and that is, in this struggle with Pakistan, suddenly, American diplomats have raised the question of Kashmir. This is because they do not know, they are not aware. They are not aware. I am just back from America and I know how it works or how it works,” they said.

Asked how the cinema can show Kashmir to Kashmir, Agnihotri shared that the only way to do so is to maintain sensitivity. “The only way to show Kashmir is with a lot of human touch, a lot of caution, tenderness, and until you feel that pain … and anyone who makes a film on Kashmir should talk to the victims of Kashmir.

Agnihotri talked about his next film, which is based on the history and politics of West Bengal in India. The director said that “Bengal is becoming another Kashmir,” the state mentions political and regional conflicts in the state.

“My next film is on Bengal. Hopefully, it will be called ‘The Bengal Files’. I don’t know yet. This film also shows the tragedy of Partition. And, we have handled it with so much care and honesty, because this idea does not blame anyone. It is considered the idea that humanity is absent in one area and any car has any imprisonment,” he said.

Agnihotri continued, “After 30–35 years, some Vivek Agnihotri comes and makes a film on Kashmir. And then people say, ‘No, no, no, no, no, it is publicity’, and everyone calls Kashmir files’ propaganda. I have seen this.

The director said that his film would attract a lot of criticisms, but this would not make him know by saying ‘truth’. “Bengal has become another Kashmir. I know when my film will come, people will attack again and say, ‘What is this? You can’t say anything like that’. But believe me, I will prove to be right because I am not making films just because they are films. For me, this is my life mission.”

The filmmaker is often told that his cinema is biased, and fulfills issues that favor BJP’s political interests. He told us, “I ensure that I personally talk to people in classes, understand them, read many books, get all points and reach the truth – which is wider and which is spoken by almost all sides, and then I show it with a lot of emotions because I need to feel that feeling.”

“As long as they feel the pain of pain and genocide or communal violence, people will sit anytime and understand the seriousness of the case,” they concluded.

Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir files’ became a big hit at the box office. The director gained Newfound popularity with the release of the film. Actors Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi and Darshan Kumar, others, were part of the film.