In the past few days, we have witnessed much commentary on social media, TV channels, press columns and even a speech by the prime minister, praising the “truth and art” in a recent Hindi blockbuster, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files.
The film does indeed narrate the purportedly hidden truths about the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus during the insurgency in 1990. It is another matter though that the truths lined up in the film were never hidden but common knowledge for anyone interested in the story of Kashmir since 1990. The only people, it seems, for whom the film is a revelation are those who should have known this truth in far greater detail than the rest of us; the ones who have subjugated the entire philosophy of their life to a single purpose – to hate Muslims.
