The Kashmir Files: Director Vivek Agnihotri says he deactivated Twitter due to threats

Vivek Agnihotri’s upcoming film The Kashmir Files had recently unveiled its trailer , which as of today, has garnered over five million views. But it seems that the film has also gotten the director some negative and even hostile reactions, so much so that he had to deactivate his official Twitter handle.

The filmmaker took to Instagram to elaborate on the issue, explaining in a post the chain of events that led him to make the decision. He revealed that when he started to promote his upcoming film on Twitter, he got shadowbanned on the platform and started to lose followers as well. In addition to that, he said he was on the receiving end of an array of ‘hateful’ messages, some of which even targeted his family as well.

He talked about how social media has given immense power to a lot of ‘evil elements’, and that silence can make them expect that they will succeed. The filmmaker talked about how his upcoming film is an attempt to break such silence, and highlight the elements that ‘destroyed’ the country. He ended the post by thanking his fans and followers.

The upcoming film narrates the story of the exodus and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits that took place in the 1990s. The film stars Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Darshan Kumar, Pallavi Joshi, Chinmay Mandlekar, Puneet Issar, Mrinal Kulkarni, Atul Srivastava, Prithviraj Sarnaik, Bhasha Sumbli and Prakash Belawadi. Agnihotri has written and directed the film, which is produced by Zee Studios.

The Kashmir Files will be released in theatres on March 11, 2022.