(This column first appeared in The Print on March 18, 2022)
- There are reasons why a certain film becomes popular and some controversial. It is not unusual for filmmakers to engineer a controversy to sell the film to the public. The Kashmir Files is both controversial and attracting public attention for totally different reasons. As a film it does not have many things a box office hit should have — matinée idol, super star cast, super hit songs and corresponding screen depiction with the so-called ‘mass’ appeal (a euphemism for vulgarity)…