Bollywood
director
Vivek
Ranjan
Agnihotri,
who
was
in
Kashmir
for
his
movie,
has
once
again
triggered
a
controversy
due
to
his
social
media
antics.
Agnihotri
and
his
team
were
here
for
the
shoot
of
his
upcoming
film,
The
Kashmir
Files,
a
movie
he
claims
is
based
on
the
'unreported
story
of
the
gut-wrenching
genocide
of
Kashmiri
Hindus'.
Agnihotri
posted
two
pictures
of
his
team
having
food
at
a
Srinagar
hotel.
Apparently,
the
bunch
was
having
a
vegetarian
thali
as
the
photos
shared
showed.
And
Agnihotri
captioning
the
photos
with
this:
"Nobody
knows
how
to
make
a
vegetarian
Wazwan
in
Kashmir.
But
I
am
here
to
bring
about
a
change.
#TheKashmirFiles." And
that
was
it.
Agnihotri's
post
riled
up
netizens
in
Kashmir
who
told
him
that
there
was
no
such
thing
as
"vegetarian
Wazwan".
Director
Vivek
Agnihotri
says,
"I
was
in
Kashmir
to
shoot
my
film
'The
Kashmir
Files'.
A
lot
of
local
people,
young
artists,
creative
people,
actors,
RJs
always
want
to
meet
me
wherever
I
go.
So,
I
invited
people
for
dinner
and
I
requested
my
hotel
to
make
Wazwan
for
everybody.
Since
I
am
a
vegetarian,
I
requested
to
make
a
vegetarian
thali
but
they
said
in
Kashmir
it
is
not
possible
but
I
enquired
with
some
locals
and
found
out
that
while
it's
true
that
Wazwan
is
always
non
-
vegetarian,
getting
a
vegetarian
thali
is
possible
too.
Finally,
the
hotel
made
the
vegetarian
thali
for
me
which
was
amazing.
From
the
last
three
years,
I
have
eaten
so
much
of
Kashmiri
foods
in
the
homes
of
Kashmiri
Pandits
and
Kashmiri
Muslims
that
I
acquired
a
lot
of
knowledge
about
Kashmiri
cuisine."
He
further
adds,
"I
wrote
in
good
faith
that
I
brought
out
a
change
in
the
hotel
by
insisting
on
a
vegetarian
thali.
They
served
me
the
thali
and
I
posted
about
it.
It
was
a
simple
innocent
tweet
but
then
immediately
after
the
tweet,
all
the
separatists,
academicians
etc
started
trolling
me.
Then
all
these
terrorism
sympathetic
journalists
and
newspapers
started
reporting
it.
It
was
impossible
for
the
local
guest
to
survive
this
abuse
and
trolling.
In
fact,
some
women
guests
were
with
me.
They
were
threatened,
trolled,
abused
all
kinds
of
things
that
happened
with
me.
I
thought
that
is
not
right
for
them
to
suffer
because
of
a
tweet
of
mine."
"Therefore,
I
deleted
it
with
great
pain
and
disappointment.
After
deleting
it,
I
tweeted
about
why
I
have
deleted
it.
I
think
the
way
forward
is
we
eat
together
we
live
together
we
love
together
in
one
country
under
one
flag
and
one
constitution.
All
those
people
who
are
creating
these
separatist
kinds
of
feelings
among
Kashmiri
youths
are
actually
very
dangerous
for
the
future
of
Kashmiri
youth
because
then
they
are
isolated
from
mainstream
thinking
of
inclusiveness
and
living
together.
I
see
a
bleak
future
if
this
not
stopped
immediately.
I
can
delete
a
tweet
but
how
will
you
delete
these
feelings
inside
the
minds
of
these
young
Kashmiris
is
something
which
needs
to
be
invoked,"
adds
Agnihotri.
Featuring
Anupam
Kher
in
a
pivotal
role,
The
Kashmir
Files
is
slated
to
release
in
2021.