Vivek Agnihotri reacts to student protests, says it should keep happening
Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri was recently spotted at the screening of a film based on spiritual guru Neem Karoli Baba, where he spoke about the importance of protests in a democracy. Interacting with IANS, on the red carpet of the screening, Agnihotri initially was reluctant in talking about the protests at the screening of the film. But later, he said, “It is a democracy, things happen, they have been happening for a long time. There have been thousands of protests in the last 70 years, and they keep happening. In fact they should be happening, why shouldn’t they be happening?” For the uninitiated, Vivek Agnihotri has been a part of the Hindi film industry for over two decades. He made his directorial debut with Chocolate (2005) and later helmed films such as Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, Hate Story, Buddha in a Traffic Jam and The Tashkent Files. The filmmaker earned a lot of critical acclaim and commercial success with The Kashmir Files released in 2022, which depicted the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. …
