IFFI Jury Head Nadav Lapid Denies Calling The Kashmir Files 'Brilliant' or Apologising For His Comments on Vivek Agnihotri's Film (Watch Video)
Nadav Lapid also claimed in the interview that he has been receiving threatening messages after he called out The Kashmir Films at IFFI 2022.
Ever since he gave an interview to India Today, there have been articles with headlines that screamed how Nadav Lapid, Iranian filmmaker and IFFI 2022 Goa jury head, has apologised for calling The Kashmir Files 'vulgar' and 'propaganda' and calling the film 'brilliant'. Even the film's lead actor Anupam Kher shared the headline of such articles on Twitter, with the caption, "Ultimately Truth always triumphs!" IFFI 2022: Jury Head Nadav Lapid Calls The Kashmir Files ‘A Propaganda, Vulgar Movie’; Says Vivek Agnihotri’s Film Was Inappropriate for a Prestigious Film Festival (Watch Video).
However in an interview give to The Wire's Karan Thapar, the Iranian director denies making any such comment or apology. In fact, he says he only apologised to those people who were insulted by his comments, but he refuses to back down from his comments and that they were reserved only regarding the craft of the film, and not on the actual tragedy of the Kashmir Pandit exodus.
Watch the Interview below:
FYR, here's the interview he gave to India Today, from where the news articles allegedly misquoted his statements.
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