The Kashmir Files might be Vivek Agnihotri’s biggest success yet. But it failed to impress the jury at the International Film Festival of India.
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00:00If I can create a product, if it's my baby, if I can give birth to a film, then I am man enough to protect it and defend it also.
00:30Besides the controversy of the Oscar comment that came in, Kashmir Files should not go to the Oscars, which was said by Anurag Kashyap, besides that, how would you feel about the Kashmir Files going to the Oscars?
00:55Honestly, see, these days problem is even if you give an honest answer, people will think you are dishonest. Honestly, it doesn't matter to me.
01:02Seriously, it doesn't matter. Because what I have got is something I could have never asked for more than this. Because, have you seen the film?
01:11I haven't, not yet. Okay, so, the woman who was cut alive on the saw machine, their family wrote to me saying that for 30 years we never even spoke about our sister.
01:22And now, after the film, we saw the film and then we, the entire family spoke to each other, we cried and now we have started healing.
01:29You know, what is, can any Oscar be bigger than that? And not one. I have thousands of emails, letters, messages like that.
01:37Wherever I go, I get so many blessings, you know. I mean, I can't even tell you how much God has given me. But yes, why not Oscar?
01:45Mereko koi problem nahi hai usse. And I loved Arara, let it go, let Rocketry go, let any other film go, I have no problems with that.
01:52Let any film go, let Anubhav Sinha's Anek go, I have no problems, you know. My thing is, who are you to come in public and say which film should not go?
02:01Who gave you that right and power? Because you are paying dirty politics on the street. So, if I can create a product, if it's my baby, if I can give birth to a film
02:10then I am man enough to protect it and defend it also. Man enough means not in a misogynist or sexist way. I am a man. So, I am man enough to protect it.