The movie is predicated on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits within the early Nineteen Nineties necessitated by insurgency and terrorism. Agnihotri has penned the script with Saurabh M Pandey.
Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi play main roles.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the movie’s figures on his Twitter deal with. He wrote, “#TheKashmirFiles is SENSATIONAL, biz more than doubles on Day 2… Registers 139.44% growth, HIGHEST EVER GROWTH [Day 2] since 2020… East, West, North, South, #BO is on … This film is UNSTOPPABLE… Fri 3.55 cr, Sat 8.50 cr. Total: ₹ 12.05 cr. #India biz… FANTASTIC!”
Agnihotri’s peer within the movie business Hansal Mehta tweeted in help of Agnihotri’s success.
“Congratulations @vivekagnihotri for #TheKashmirFiles. You have succeeded exterior the system, by yourself phrases. Ideologically or in any other case I’d disagree along with your views and movies however as a colleague I have to commend you,” wrote Mehta, who’s behind such notable movies like Aligarh and Omerta.
The Indian Express movie critic Shubra Gupta gave the movie 1.5 stars and wrote, “With all its propagandist verve, and cementing the current dispensation’s favored discourse, it does manage to tap into the grief of the displaced Pandits. What stays with us are the flashes of genuine pain that envelopes Pushkar Nath (Anupam Kher in a credible turn, even if some of his portions are overwrought), damaged and suffering from dementia, but who has never forgotten his beloved Habba Kadal. He is never able to go home again.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
