‘The Kashmir Files’ director gets into a spat with Twitter user who challenges him to make ‘Manipur Files’

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Vivek Agnihotri, recently got into a war of words with a few Twitter users, who asked him to make a movie named ‘Manipur Files’. The director tweeted how the Indian judiciary was oblivious to the plight of the Kashmiri Pandits when one Twitter user challenged him to make a movie on the Kashmiri Pandits. “Make a movie called the ‘Manipur Files’, if you are man enough,” wrote a Twitter user named ‘Wandere Ali’. Agnihotri’s reply was polite but acerbic. Thanking the commenter for having faith in him, Agnihotri wrote, “Thanks for having so much faith in me. Par saari films mujhse hi banwaoge kya yaar? Tumhari ‘Team India’ mein koi ‘man enough’ filmmaker nahin hai kya?” (Why should I make all the films? Is no one from your ‘Team India’ man enough?) The reply got viral on the microblogging website. One user wrote, “Hahaha everyone has faith in you. That's the price you have to pay after making superb movies like #TheKashmirFiles, eagerly waiting for #thevaccinewar now.” Others accused the director of having a political agenda. One Twitter user wrote, “So you agree you are part of «Team NDA»? f someone (assuming a fan of your genuine work) requests you to present the real story of Manipur, you will target him & put a tag/label? Why not present the reality of Manipur & if u don't wanna do it, then don't target/label people!!!”

Although news of unrest in Manipur has been going on, for quite some time, things came to a head on, when a video of one a girl of one of the warring communities, being stripped and paraded naked by a mob of men, went viral on social media. Many celebs such as Akshay Kumar, Kiara Advani, Jaya Bachchan, etc publicly condemned the grotesque display of violence in the video.Superstar