Mumbai, February 25: A day after national-award-winning director Vivek Agnihotri alleged that Anupama Chopra was trying to ‘sabotage’ his recent movie, The Kashmir Files, he released a Youtube exposing her inherent prejudice against his films.
On Thursday, Agnihotri released a Youtube video claiming that there is a campaign being carried out against his movies by movie critic Anupama Chopra and her platform 'Film Companion'.
In his video, the director said that bigwigs of Bollywood, like Karan Johar, controlled the media establishment, and that it is difficult today to only rely on social media platforms to promote creative films. Naming a few production houses, producers, including Anupama Chopra’s husband Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Agnihotri pointed out that these entities have become the establishments of Bollywood which set the rules, and also decide on the success of the individuals who enter it.
Agnihotri said in his video, “Only those people who bend before this establishment will survive in the industry. Vivek Agnihotri never bows down to this establishment, never will do. Hence, I have been made to pay a price." Earlier, Agnihotri had tweeted that Anupama Chopra was playing ‘dirty tricks’ to target his movie. He announced that he would soon expose the tricks of the trade used by Anupama and her team.
In the video, Agnihotri also showed how Film Companion had called his last movie ‘The Tashkent Files’ as a “second-hand history lesson in a third rate politics”. Film Companion has not written a single review on the ‘The Kashmir Files’, Agnihotri said in the video.
It is noteworthy, that several Kashmiri Hindus had alleged that Shikara did not do justice to the Kashmiri Hindu cause. It watered down the genocide of Hindus to appease Islamic agenda. Kashmiri Pandits had disowned the film, as they had felt it was fabricated and did not deliver facts.