The Kashmir Files, a Bollywood film about the exodus of Hindus from the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley, may be banned in multi-racial Singapore, according to a media report published on Monday. The film has been deemed "beyond" the city-film state's classification guidelines.
The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY), and Ministry of Home Affairs issued a joint statement stating that the Hindi-language film exceeds Singapore's film classification rules (MHA).
"The film will be denied certification due to its controversial and one-sided representation of Muslims and Hindus being persecuted in the ongoing strife in Kashmir," officials informed Channel News Asia.
"These depictions have the potential to incite enmity between various communities and destroy social cohesion and religious peace in our multiracial and multireligious society," they stated.
According to the film classification criteria, "any content that disparages racial or religious communities in Singapore" will be denied classification, they stated.
The film, directed by Vivek Agnihotri and released in India in March to mixed reviews, is based on the terrorism-related flight of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s.
The film, written and directed by Agnihotri, stars Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, and Pallavi Joshi.
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