On 11th March 2022, a day that will be remembered for when for the first time Hindus found their collective spine to tell the true story of the genocide of their people by Pakistani sponsored terrorists in 1990. The Kashmir Files is more than just a movie. It is more than the visual representation of the atrocities committed by Islamic extremists. It is the true story of Hindus, the lived experience of tens of thousands that has finally found a voice expressing their anguish that has been suspended in time since 1990.
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s film contains the true account of what happened in 1990. He says, "The Kashmir Files movie is based on true stories and about the genocide against Kashmiri Hindus. The movie was made after collecting testimonies from the victims and conducting four years of research."
During World War 2, the Nazis committed the genocide of some 6 million Jews. The Jewish community was decimated, but in the wake of their collective pain, they rose and challenged the world. Since then, more than 50 international movies have been made telling the stories of the atrocities faced by the Jewish community.
Movies like: Anne Frank Parallel Stories, The Accountant of Auschwitz, Auschwitz, Defiance, Denial (2016), The Final Solution, God on Trial, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Resistance Banker, Schindler’s List, Secret Diary of the Holocaust, Who Will Write Our History and The Zookeeper’s Wife.
Compared with what the Jewish community have done, India and Hindus have been an abject failure. 1.3 billion Indians, and now finally we have a film that tells the true story of our genocide. So, stand up and applaud Vivek Agnihotri for taking on this monumental task and crafting the narrative of real events, real people, real pain and real atrocities with such passion and compassion.
Pt Satish Sharmaji of the Global Hindu Federation said, ‘The film is a mirror which will cause great discomfort and hopefully shame those people who have been using Kashmir for virtue signalling and political grandstanding. Politicians like Sir Kier Starmer must watch this movie. If he can bend his knee for one George Floyd, why not bow one’s head for 500,000 Hindus from Kashmir?’. Adding, ‘The British and the UN have a moral and ethical responsibility to declare this mass murder as religiously motivated Genocide’.
My good friend Lord Rami Ranger CBE said, ‘The movie is a sad indictment of the then Indian Government which did not protect its citizens from religious terrorism. It is a must for everyone to see how the region is used to spread death, destruction, smash and grab.’
Conservative MP Bob Blackman summed up the sentiments perfectly when he stated, ‘The solution has always been very simple, it’s for Pakistanis to cease to occupy the valley. The LoC should be dismantled, and all terrorist camps should be dismantled’, adding, ‘the Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave at the point of a gun and to the cries of leave, die or convert. We must call out to the world that this was ethnic cleansing and a genocide’.
In my view the film needs to be shortlisted and shown at the Canne’s Film Festival, and every international film festival in the world. I want the film to be screened at the House of Commons so our MPs and Peers can watch the truth that so many hitherto have either ignored or have wilfully tried to misrepresent.
So, if you have not seen the movie, please do so. You will begin to understand the barbaric atrocities committed on our people by the Pakistani sponsored terrorists. You will also understand why so many Indians, Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains in this country are rejecting the Labour Party. The Labour Party harbours MPs and members who have explicitly expressed their anti-India stance on Kashmir time and again. My challenge to Keir Starmer, bring together your shadow front bench and we will bring the movie to you. I await your call.
