No offense

Last Sunday, we went for Kashmir Files. I barely ever care enough to step out for a movie but the hype and excessive promotion over and above the top around the globe got me there. Before even booking the tickets, our brains had already been conditioned enough that the lacrimal glands were almost prepared to put the best show. Honestly, I could only manage a single tear episode where Krishna failed to recognise his own parents. More out of conditioning and confirming to the amplified tones all over the internet. It was a good watch ,to be extremely precise. Highlighted the plight of Kashmiri Pandits and ventilated their long-pending grievances . More than the movie , I was startled by the crowd composition and reaction. The sloganeering and clamouring that followed appeared so brusque. The whole agenda of the movie was to acknowledge the genocide or exodus or however you would want to put it and empathize with the victims. However the whole screen-drama ended up becoming a political utensil.The agenda was to unite people over an issue that our fellow citizens faced . It demanded equal participation from all sections of the society,all religions ,creeds etc etc. Sadly enough, I wonder if it's hard to understand that barely any person confirming to Islam went and watched. In fact there are twitter rooms running that discourage the people from watching and certain other rooms that fillip people from certain religions, castes,sub-castes to watch ,with hashtags giving different communal flavours to the mix. I very humbly deplore anybody who has been using the words Islamophobia or Hinduphobia even in the minutest context. Was this the purpose of the movie? To have our audiences and friends divided over a humanitarian crisis? I neither conform to the right nor to the left. I conform to India that is Bharat. The country world admires for pluralism and brotherhood.The country world looks up to for the rich accomodative culture. I do not conform to divisive politics of the shrewd to the detriment of the vulnerable. It's understandable if muslims don't want to go and watch and empathise. The way it has been spiked and projected ; the whole scheme feels like an attack and how do you react to an attack? You defend.You defend yourself to death. I acknowledge the fact that the overemphasized promotions with attacking undertones might have helped with getting some concessions for Kashmiri Pandits.However what did the stakeholders benefit from this? Except for the empathy of a majority community did they get any support? Any relief measure? Any effort to rehabilitate them? Anything other than empathy? More than empathy I see aggression around. People aggressively promoting a movie. People claiming that it tells the truth as it was/is. Snap out of the fictitious world and you'd understand there's a world beyond that which demands you to be empathetic towards all. Not just people who think like you but also with people who don't. Had the big bollywood names even slightly said a word in favour of the movie, I believe the minorities would've atleast not completely disregarded one historical episode that continues to affect a section of us daily. It trickles from the top. Instead of having us united,the movie has successfully reignited flames of communalism.I saw people questioning the word secular in the constitution. People labelling one whole institution as schismatic. It feels like the world has forgotten how to take a balanced view. It is fair to  conform to a faith and defend it but it's fairer to conform to humanity . The saffronising of theatres will not help the Kashmiri Pandits . The change will come when there are as many greens as saffron in the audience. It'll come when you're willing to listen and accomodate. All wars started with an us and a them . This is humanity versus religion here and I can only hope that after reading this you would try your best to let humanity win.  

Love.