Here’s what went into making of The Kashmiri Files: 700 interviews of victims, 5,000 hours of research

Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri revealed about what went into the making of The Kashmir Files. He said that 5000 hours of research were done and 15 thousand pages of documents were collected to make the film.

Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri's film The Kashmir Files is getting the continuous love of the audience ever since it was released in cinemas on March 11. The film has been performing exceptionally well at the box office. The film's director Vivek Agnihotri has become the talking point of The Kashmir Files. Although the film boasts of big names like Anupam Kher, and Mithun Chakraborty, Agnihotri has taken the entire responsibility of the promotion of this film on his shoulders.

Today, at a press conference in Delhi, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri spoke about what went into the making of The Kashmir Files. He said that 5000 hours of research was done and 15 thousand pages of documents were collected to make this film. During the press conference, the director also showed a 20-minute video, which had snippets from the interviews of Kashmiri Pandits who were actually present in Kashmir in those days.

Vivek Agnihotri added that he and his wife Pallavi Joshi traveled to many countries around the world and many cities of India to meet Kashmiri Pandit victims and recorded interviews of over 700 victimised Kashmiri Pandits during the making of this film. Agnihotri and Pallavi Joshi were even seen wiping their tears while talking to the victims at various places in this 20-minute video.

Agnihotri explains that Kashmiri Pandits are pained because they were thrown out of their house. However, their biggest pain is that due to the condition of the political system at that time, most people don't know what actually happened to Kashmiri Pandits. He said that the government tried its best to hide this tragedy.

The filmmaker further said that many Kashmiri Pandits requested Bollywood bigwigs to make a film on this issue but every time they got disappointed. In 2018, when the idea came to him about the film, he also took one to one-and-a-half months to agree to it. He said, "It was not easy to take this decision, as one has to face many types of dangers, you can be threatened by terrorists and when terrorists attack, no police or army comes to save you, although my wife Pallavi Joshi gave me courage. And we decided that we will make this film like a creative soldier."

Currently, The Kashmir Files is receiving a lot of love from the audience. Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri has also announced that a web series will be soon be made on it.

ALSO READ| The Kashmir Files Review: The Kashmir Files opened, the bandage ripped off. What do you see?