MP Police To Get Leave To Watch 'The Kashmir Files'

On Monday, The Madhya Pradesh government announced the news!

On Monday, The Madhya Pradesh government said policemen in the state will be provided leave to watch the recently-released film "The Kashmir Files".

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had on Sunday decided to exempt the film from the entertainment tax in the state.

On Monday, MP Home Minister Narottam Mishra told reporters that “the Madhya Pradesh policemen will be given leave to watch the movie 'The Kashmir Files' and instructions for the same have been issued to Director General of Police Sudhir Saxena".

Written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Zee Studios, the film depicts the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir following systematic killings of people from the community by Pakistan-supported terrorists.

It stars Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi and many others.

In a tweet on Sunday, CM Chouhan had said the film is a "heart-wrenching narration of the pain, suffering, struggle, and trauma faced by Kashmiri Hindus in the 90s".

He said the movie needs to be watched by maximum people, hence the state government has decided to make the movie tax-free.

Vivek Agnihotri's directorial The Kashmir Files was released in the theatres on March 11. It wasn't easy to bring the film to the screens though. Vivek's wife and producer Pallavi Joshi (who also plays a key character in The Kashmir Files), revealed that a fatwa was issued against them during the last day of shooting.

Starring Anupam Kher and Mithun Chakraborty, the film is set in 1990 during the Kashmir insurgency.

It has brought forth the stories of lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits who had to leave behind everything they had in the Valley in 1990.