Twitter War Erupts As Vivek Agnihotri Asks Anurag Kashyap To “Prove” ‘The Kashmir Files’ Research Wrong
Vivek Agnihotri and Anurag Kashyap engaged in a massive war of words after the latter raised a question on ‘The Kashmir Files’ director’s research work for his films.
A war of words erupted between filmmakers Vivek Agnihotri and Anurag Kashyap on Twitter after ‘The Kashmir Files’ director hit back at Anurag Kashyap over his recent remark. It all started on Tuesday when Vivek Agnihotri expressed his disagreement over Anurag Kashyap’s views on how South Indian films have led to Bollywood destroying itself. Vivek Agnihotri shared a screengrab of an article with the headline "Films Like Kantara And Pushpa are destroying the industry: Kashyap.”
Disagreeing with Anurag Kashyap's statement, Vivek Agnihotri wrote along with the screengrab, "I totally totally totally disagree with the views of Bollywood’s one & only Milord. Do you agree?"
I totally totally totally disagree with the views of Bollywood’s one & only Milord.
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) December 13, 2022
Do you agree? pic.twitter.com/oDdAsV8xnx
In response to this, the ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ director commented on the research that goes into Vivek Agnihotri's films.
Sir aapki galti nahin hai, aap ki filmon ki research bhi aisi hi hoti hai jaise aapki mere conversations pe tweet hai. Aapka aur aapki media ka bhi same haal hai. Koi nahin next time thoda serious research kar lena .. https://t.co/eEHPrUeH9u
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) December 14, 2022
This statement didn’t sit well with Vivek Agnihotri, who then posted a scathing tweet in which he asked Anurag Kashyap to prove his research for ‘The Kashmir Files’ was wrong. He also indirectly took a jab at Kashyap’s recent directorial ‘Dobaaraa’.
Bholenath, aap lage haath sabit kar hi do ki #TheKashmirFiles ka 4 saal ka research sab jhooth tha. Girija Tikoo, BK Ganju, Airforce killing, Nadimarg sab jhooth tha. 700 Panditon ke video sab jhooth the. Hindu kabhi mare hi nahin. Aap prove kar do, DOBAARA aisi galti nahin hogi. https://t.co/jc5g3iL4VI
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) December 14, 2022
For the unversed, in a round table interaction with Galatta Plus, Anurag Kashyap had said, "With pan-India, what is happening right now is that everybody is trying to make a pan-India film. Success will be 5-10%. Films like Kantara and Pushpa give you the courage to go out and tell your stories."
He added, "But KGF 2, however big the success, when you try and emulate that and set a project up, that’s when you start heading towards disaster. That’s the bandwagon that Bollywood destroyed itself on."
Bollywood only had a handful of successes in 2022 including ‘The Kashmir Files’, while the South Indian movie industry performed extraordinarily well with films like ‘RRR’, ‘KGF 2’, ‘PS1’ and ‘Kantara’.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Vivek Agnihotri has recently started the shooting of his next film 'The Vaccine War', which will release on Independence Day 2023. Anurag Kashyap, on the other hand, recently directed the suspense thriller 'Dobaaraa'.
