Fact Check: The Kashmir Files and the disinformation surrounding it

Debunking some claims on Kashmiri Pandits and The Kashmir Files, a movie based on them

The Kashmir Files, a recent Bolloywood movie based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits during the nineties has provided fodder for various false and misleading news. Directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and starring Anupam Kher and Pallavi Joshi among others, the movie has been made tax-free in several States. It has also has rekindled the debate on militancy in the erstwhile State.

Here are some claims circulating in the social media about the movie and the so-called repurcussions it has created.

This is a claim by the director itself. He had tweeted on March 14 that Rhode Island, a State in USA, Rhode Island, "has officially recognised Kashmir Genocide due to a very small film."

(Here is the archived tweet)

A closer look at the citation he shared would let us know that there is no mention of the word genocide.

Journalist Raqib Hameed Naik reached out to Brian Patrick Kennedy, State Representative, Rhode Island and posted his response. "The citation from the State was to simply recognize the premiere of this movie," Mr. Kennedy wrote adding that "a citation is simply the acknowledgement of a special event. It does NOT hold weight of a Resolution approved by the members of the House."

Fact Check: False.