Vivek Agnihotri hits back at Lapid for his ‘fascist’ remarks

Bollywood director Vivek Agnihotri on Wednesday reacted to the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) jury head Nadav Lapid’s comment that `The Kashmir Files` had fascist features. Taking to Twitter, Vivek wrote, “What is common between these? “India is a FASCIST country” “Modi is FASCIST” “BJP is fascist” “Hindu right-wing is FASCIST” “Abrogation of Art 370 a FASCIST decision” “Kashmir is occupied by FASCIST Indian regime” “#TheKashmirFiles is a fascist film.”Speaking to an Israeli news website, Ynet, over the phone, Lapid said, “It`s crazy, what`s going on here. It`s a government festival and it`s the biggest in India. It`s a film that the Indian government, even if it didn`t actually make it, at least pushed it in an unusual way. It basically justifies the Indian policy in Kashmir, and it has fascist features,” he said, according to a rough translation of the interview in Hebrew.