Kashmir files director Vivek Agnihotri hailed Javed Akhtar. The actor said,“Even a man like Javed Akhtar, the bhajans he wrote for Lagaan were pure Hindi. ‘Madhuban mein Radha..’ there is not a single Urdu word in it. Because these were well-read, intelligent people who were tied to the roots of India. He may be a communist, he may fight against the right-wing, it doesn't matter.”

He further added, “All of Javed Akhtar's heroes, all of them were either a laborer's son, a teacher's son and he would fight a dacoit or a mill owner or a zamindar. He would fight a corrupt police inspector or corrupt MLA. In which movie of recent times would you find MLAs, MPs, Police inspectors, IAS officers as the villains? It's as if India has no issues at all. The only issues are whether you are sleeping with this person or that person. That's where they have brought Bollywood." 

'The Kashmir Files', which was released across the country on March 11, depicts the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s.  Though the film, starring Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Mithun Chakraborty and Darshan Kumar, was called out for its problematic politics by some critics and authors, it performed well at the box office by minting over Rs 350 crore.

The filmmaker has recently revealed that he will be reuniting yet again with the producer of his latest historical drama film to tell root-level stories. Taking to his official Twitter account, Agnihotri announced that his I Am Buddha Foundation has taken a step forward toward his collaboration with film producer Abhishek Agarwal for his next project.

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