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Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Recordsdata opened to polarising response on the time of its launch in 2022, rising a fantastic success on the field workplace. Nevertheless, in an interview with Siddharth Kanan, actor Gulshan Devaiah has criticised the filmmaker for exploring someone’s ache to market the movie. (Additionally learn: Vivek Agnihotri reacts to motion in opposition to Arundhati Roy, posts The Kashmir Recordsdata scene clip: ‘Villain was primarily based on…’)
Regardless of the movie being mired in controversies, the movie went on to amass a lifetime assortment of Rs. 252.90 crore versus its finances of ₹15 crore.
Gulshan slams
The actor, who has beforehand labored with the filmmaker on Hate Story, didn’t like Vivek’s method of selling the movie.
“He’s a advertising and marketing man and he has an enormous following. He’s immensely profitable now, as a film-maker, as an writer. However sure, there are some issues I’m vital of. The instance that I used to be writing about The Kashmir Recordsdata, they use plenty of footage of people that have gone via that ache. Those that watched the movie may recall the time of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus and what all occurred with them. So that they have been broadcasting that on social media as publicity. I really feel that’s exploitation,” Gulshan mentioned.
He added, “You’re exploiting the precise ache and trauma of someone. I’m personally okay with that. I really feel you might be exploiting their actual feelings, to publicise your movie, which perhaps is about them. That’s within the zone of exploitation for me. On this one factor, I’m vital about that movie. In any other case, it was an okay movie and I feel he’s an okay director at finest.”
Concerning the movie
The movie is produced by Vivek in affiliation with Abhishek Agarwal Arts and Zee Studio. The Kashmir Recordsdata stars Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi, Puneet Issar, Darshan Kumar, Prakash Belawadi, Mrinal Kulkarni, and Chinmay Mandlekar in key roles. It’s allegedly primarily based on true occasions amid the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley round 1990. Vivek obtained the Nargis Dutt Award for Greatest Function Movie on Nationwide Integration class for the movie.
