Kapil Sharma denies allegations claiming his show refused to invite team of The Kashmir Files

Mumbai, March 11: After landing into controversy, Kapil Sharma has claimed that reports saying that he had refused to invite the team of movie The Kashmir Files to his show were not correct. He said that "there was no point in explaining the reason to those who had already believe that the allegations are true."

Notably, the movie’s director Vivek Agnihotri himself had said that the show had refused to invite the team of his movie. Responding to one of his fans who asked whether he was scared to promote Vivek Agnihotri’s movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ on the Kapil Sharma Show, he said that it was not at all true.

He tweeted, “What is the use of explaining to the rest who have accepted the truth. Just a suggestion as an experienced social media user- never believe in a sided story in today’s social media world. Thanks."

This is after the Kapil Sharma Show was heavily trolled on social media after reports saying that they not allowed the promotion of the Kashmir Files on the show. The fact was highlighted by Director Vivek Agnihotri who had tweeted over not being invited to Kapil Sharma’s talk show for the promotions of his upcoming film The Kashmir Files.

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He had shared that he was not invited because the film, according to the makers of the show, did not have a big commercial star cast. “They refused to call us on their show because we don’t have a big commercial star. #FACT”, the Director tweeted.

“Even I am a fan. But it’s a fact that they refused to call us on their show because there is no big star. In Bollywood non-starter Directors, writers and good actors are considered as NOBODIES”, he had added in the series of tweets.

The film is based on lives of Kashmiri Pandits and stars veteran actors like Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty & Pallavi Joshi. Roughly 100,000 of the valley’s total 140,000 Kashmiri Pandit inhabitants migrated between February and March 1990.

The ideological isolation of it is not just restricted to lessening its promotion, but also resulted in film critics like Anupama Chopra sabotaging it before its release. NDTV was caught altering SEO settings by calling The Kashmir Files a ‘propaganda film’, months before its release. The film has also landed in legal troubles with some people wanting to stall its release.

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The film is based on video interviews with first-generation Kashmiri Pandit victims of the Kashmir Genocide. It was originally slated to be released in theatres on January 26, 2022, but was postponed because of the increasing number of COVID-19 instances. It is now scheduled to release on March 11.