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"After Vivek Agnihotri lashes out at Wikipedia, they edit The Kashmir Files description". India Today. 2 May 2022. Director Vivek Agnihotri is furious over Wikipedia for describing The Kashmir Files story as 'inaccurate' and 'associated with conspiracy theories'. This resulted in the online encyclopedia editing the description and removing 'associated with conspiracy theories'.
"Vivek Agnihotri SLAMS Wikipedia for editing the description of 'The Kashmir Files'". The Times of India. 3 May 2022. Vivek Agnihotri lashed out at Wikipedia for editing the description of his film 'The Kashmir Files'. The Wiki described the story of the film as 'fictional', 'inaccurate' and 'associated with conspiracy theories'.
"Vivek Agnihotri is furious as Wikipedia page calls The Kashmir Files 'fictional': 'Hurry, edit more'". Hindustan Times. 3 May 2022. The Wikipedia entry mentions that the film 'presents a fictional storyline centered around an exodus of Kashmiri Hindus' and that it 'depicts the early 1990s exodus to be a genocide, a notion that is considered to be widely inaccurate'.
"Vivek Agnihotri fumes as Wikipedia page refers to The Kashmir Files as fictional: 'Failing your secular credentials'". The Indian Express. 4 May 2022. Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri expressed his fury regarding the description on Wikipedia about his recent hit, The Kashmir Files. The site referred to it as a 'fictional' story.
Subhash K Jha (5 May 2022). "Wikipedia gets it wrong again, and there is nothing Vivek Agnihotri can do about it". Firstpost. If Wikipedia is to be believed — and it's sickening and frightening how this self-help quick fix cocky rack of righteous knowledge is taken as the gospel truth by billions across the world—then The Kashmir Files, the film that has drastically revised decades-old mindsets on the savage slaying of Kashmiri Pandits in the 1990s, is nothing but a flickering fiction, a pack of lies, a web of deceit.

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This article is biased and needs editing.[edit]

This is a biased article and doesn’t not even have the name of scholars who find it fictional. Shame. Shinychaudhary (talk) 09:44, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article has lots of reliable sources for finding the film fictional. Have you looked at the footnotes? Bishonen | tålk 09:48, 20 July 2023 (UTC).[reply]

how a journalist feels about a film shouldn't be included. Some people feel positive some negative. Personal feelings should be kept out it Akt 2000 (talk) 06:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sequel / Extension - The Kashmir Files: Unreported[edit]

I think we should add information about the docu-series The Kashmir Files: Unreported, which is being seen as a sequel to the movie. the series contains interviews that were conducted as a part of the research for the film.

Some link: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/kashmir-files-unreported-post-iffi-row-vivek-agnihotri-announces-kashmir-files-follow-up-film/article66204169.ece

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/vivek-agnihotri-unveils-series-the-kashmir-files-unreported-makes-big-claim-4228831

https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/exclusive-watch-pallavi-joshi-on-the-kashmir-files-unreported-nobody-calls-me-to-work-in-their-films-12910672.html

https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/web-series/article/the-kashmir-files-unreported-vivek-ranjan-agnihotria-pallavi-joshi-promote-upcoming-series-at-dal-lake-23299878

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 28 August 2023[edit]

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Hello Editors,

I have noticed that the producer's article is not linked, I request you to kindly link "Abhishek Agarwal" to Abhishek Agarwal. also, if relevant, also redirect his production studio "Abhishek Agarwal Arts" also to his article Abhishek Agarwal.

Thank you. bɑʁɑqoxodaraP (talk) 14:01, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DoneRegentsPark (comment) 14:12, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rana Ayyub[edit]

How a journalist feels about a film shouldn't be included. Only facts needs to included not feelings of people Akt 2000 (talk) 06:18, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]