The Kashmir Files row: Sudipto Sen calls Nadav Lapid’s remark ‘unethical’ | Bollywood
Filmmaker Sudipto Sen has opened up about Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s remark on The Kashmir Files at the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI). In a new interview, Sudipto said that he felt fellow juror Nadav’s comment were ‘unethical’. As per the report, Sudipto added that The Kashmir Files was one of the 17 films, which were “rejected” from being awarded at the film festival. He added that ‘the film did not fit in the artistic criteria we had’. (Also Read | The Kashmir Files row: Nadav Lapid apologises for his comment, says ‘my aim was never to insult people, their relatives’) Nadav, who served as the chairperson of IFFI’s international jury, had termed Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files a ‘vulgar and propaganda’ movie in his speech at the award ceremony during the closing night of the nine-day film festival in Goa. The Kashmir Files portrays the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir in the 1990s. The film is one of the most commercially successful Hindi films of the year. It featured Anupam Kher, …