Truth of stories of "The Kashmir Files", Six grim realities based on the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus

30-Nov-2022

The way movie director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s "The Kashmir Files " has depicted the brutal genocide of Kashmiri Hindus in Kashmir valley in 1990’s , that had been covered up for years has made thousands of people realise the truth but this realisation of truth didn’t go down well with the so called liberals or terror sympathisers, who kept supporting the Islamist terrorists and their agendas. These so called secular activists are hell bent to prove this movie as a propaganda by denying the truth shown in this movie.

One such attempt has been made by an Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, who termed `The Kashmir Files’ as vulgar and inappropriate. Soon after his remark, the left liberal gang bounced back and started making statements in it’s support by targeting `The Kashmir Files’ which certainly does seem a result of a `Well Planned Toolkit’.

Coming to larger issue about the authenticity of the movie. Is this movie based on real life incidents and genocide of Kashmiri Hindus or just some fictional drama ? Answer is yes, this movie is based on real life incidents of Kashmiri Hindus who were attacked, massacred which led to their exodus and all this have been portrayed in this movie without any twists and turns.

Six such brutal incidents of Kashmiri Hindus genocide we list down here, which have been depicted in the movie the way they happened in reality:

1 : Telecom engineer B K Ganjoo

In Kashmir Files, this character has been performed by Pushkar Nath Pandit’s son and Sharda Pandits husband

B.K. Ganjoo was a telecom engineer, who lived with his wife and children in Srinagar. In March 1990, Ganjoo was coming home during the curfew relaxation period. When he reached the house, his wife saw that he was being followed. Ganjoo’s wife locked the doors, and he hid himself in the drum of rice. The terrorists searched the entire house and were about to leave, but his neighbours provided hint to them about Ganjoo hiding in the rice drum. After this, Ganjoo was shot dead by the terrorists and they didn’t stop here only, the rice soaked in the blood was then forcefully fed to Ganjoo’s wife.

2 : Justice Neel Kanth Ganjoo:

Kashmir Files has scene that shows the scared Hindu community of Kashmir valley following the killing of a Srinagar High Court Judge.

It happened in reality on November 1989 when the terrorists had shot Kashmiri Hindu retired Judge Nilakanth Ganjoo in broad daylight in Maharaj Bazaar, Amira Kadal. Justice Ganjoo was being watched after he had given death sentence to Maqbool Bhat, the leader of JKLF, whom he had found involved in the murder of Amar Chand, a CID Police Sub-Inspector of Jammu and Kashmir Police, resident of Nadihal village of Baramulla district.

After many years during a TV interview, JKLF terrorist Yasin Malik had confessed that he had killed Justice Ganjoo. Malik was heard saying that the JKLF had shot Justice Nilkanth Ganjoo as he had announced the hanging of Maqbool Bhat.

3 : Killing of four Indian Air Force Officers:-

There’s a scene in Kashmir Files which shows how four IAF officers standing at the bus stand brutally killed by the terrorists. Unfortunately it’s based on real incident.

There’s a scene in Kashmir Files which shows how four IAF officers standing at the bus stand brutally killed by the terrorists. Unfortunately it’s based on real incident.

4 : Sarvanand Koul and Virender Koul

In Kashmir Files movie, right before the sequence of Pushkar Nath Pandit and Sharda Pandit’s exodus from the valley, terrorist have been shown dragging aged Sarvanand Koul and his son Virender and soon after their dead bodies are found hanging on a tree. This incident is based on the killing of Sarvanand Koul in April 1990.

In Kashmir Files movie, right before the sequence of Pushkar Nath Pandit and Sharda Pandit’s exodus from the valley, terrorist have been shown dragging aged Sarvanand Koul and his son Virender and soon after their dead bodies are found hanging on a tree. This incident is based on the killing of Sarvanand Koul in April 1990.

5 : Girija Tickoo

In Kashmir Files movie, just right before it’s climax, Sharda Pandit is shown given away by the jihadists to the mechanical saw machine alive, cutting her right from the middle of her body. This in reality had happened to Girija Tickoo in June 1990.

Tickoo was a Kashmiri Hindu from Bandipora who worked as a laboratory assistant in a school in Kashmir Valley. In the aftermath of killings and massacres of Hindu community by jihadi terrorists, like many other Kashmiri Hindus, Tickoo and her family had also fled valley and settled in Jammu . One day, she received a call from someone who claimed the situation was better in the valley and she could come back to collect her salary. She was assured of safety, and the person alleged the area was safe to travel to.

On the 4th of June 1990, Girija came to the valley to collect her salary and met her local Muslim colleague at her home. She was not aware that Jihadi terrorists were tracking her movement. Girija was kidnapped from her colleague’s home and was taken to an unknown location. Everyone, including her colleague and people in the locality, watched her being taken silently. After a few days of the kidnapping, her dead body was found on the roadside in horrible condition. The autopsy revealed she was brutally gang-raped and tortured. Girija was cut into two pieces using a mechanical saw while she was still alive, right from the middle of her body.

6 : Nadimarg Massacre

The climax of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s "The Kashmir Files” recreates the massacre at Nadimarg village (a village in Shopian district) when in reality innocent Hindus were lined up by jihadi terrorists and shot at point blank range one by one. This mass massacre is based on a real incident of 23 March 2003.

On March 23, 2003, 24 Hindu Kashmiri Pandits in the village of Nadimarg in Pulwama were killed by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists. The armed terrorists came dressed in forged military uniforms and dragged the Hindus out from their homes, lined them and shot them with automatic weapons. The victims, 11 men, 11 women and 2 small children ranged from a 70-year-old to 2-year-old. The policemen posted there fled the scene. The killers disfigured the bodies of the victims, looted their houses and took away the ornaments from the bodies of the dead women.

Newyork Times had held Islamic Terrorism responsible for this mass massacre and States Department of USA also stated it a religion based massacre.

Aforementioned are the real life based incidents which shook the whole nation when they were depicted in a movie. "The Kashmir Files" exhibits the pain and sufferings of whole Kashmiri Hindu community while it’s story revolves around Pushkar Nath Pandit and his family during the 1990 Kashmir genocide. It has depicted the real life sufferings , massacres, the separatism, the nexus between terrorists and University Professors or the threats received by Hindu community to leave the Kashmir valley due to radical Islamisation.

On a whole, for some, it’s still mere a fictional drama but sadly it’s the bitter truth that had been covered up for decades but Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri courageously worked upon it and woven all the incidents into a movie which are hard to digest for many. Though chronology of the events have been taken liberty with by the director something which every director takes while working on a movie based on real life incidents but calling this movie vulgar or a propaganda would be like denying the truth and an insult of sacrifices made by the Kashmiri Hindus.

So disliking a film is your right, but issuing a fatwa against or saying that a film should not exist is a blatant agenda.