A district court in Jammu has stayed the release of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files in Jammu. The suit was filed by the wife of martyred Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna who said that one of the scenes, depicting the death of her husband, had been wrongly portrayed in the film. She added that she had watched the film at its special premiere show on March 4. She raised an objection soon after the show while speaking on the dais, but the makers, according to her, did not pay heed. After that too, the makers did not address her concern, which is when she decided to take the legal route.
The district court, while staying the film’s release in Jammu, stated: “Suit for mandatory injunction directing the defendants to immediately remove and delete the scene and incorrect facts displayed/shown vis-à-vis the husband of the plaintiff, namely Martyr Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna, in the movie and the trailer of the movie, The Kashmir Files, set to be released on March 11, 2022, which is absolutely and entirely unrelated and non-identical to the actual facts occurred as mentioned in the suit by the plaintiff; or in the alternate, to amend/alter the scene and the incorrect facts vis-à-vis the husband of the plaintiff namely Martyr Squadron Leader Sh. Ravi Khanna in the movie The Kashmir Files in accordance to the actual and true, occurred on the incidence i.e. on January 25, 1990, whereby the husband of the plaintiff was martyred.” It further stated, “Suit for permanent prohibitory injunction restraining the defendants to release the movie The Kashmir Files until the aforesaid removal, deletion or amendment of the scene and incorrect facts displayed vis-à-vis the husband of the plaintiff in the movie and trailer, contrary to the actual and true facts narrated by the plaintiff in the suit and otherwise also, any other relief that the honourable court deems fit and necessary.”
The film opened all over today (March 11).