The Kashmir Files, a Bollywood movie on the exodus of Hindus from the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley, will be banned in multi-racial Singapore as the film has been assessed to be beyond the city-state’s film classification guidelines, a media report said on Monday.
A joint statement was issued in Singapore by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
The film’s representations “have the potential to cause enmity between different communities, and disrupt social cohesion and religious harmony in our multiracial and multi-religious society,” they said.
Under the film classification guidelines, “any material that is denigrating to racial or religious communities in Singapore” will be refused classification.
Following the ban Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had shared a media report that mentioned the film would not get classification in Singapore for ‘one-sided portrayal of Muslims’. He wrote, “Film promoted by India’s ruling party, #KashmirFiles, banned in Singapore.”
However, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri has responded to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor who had used Singapore’s ban on The Kashmir Files movie to target the Modi government.
Quoting Tharoor, Agnihotri said, “Singapore is the most regressive censor in the world. It even banned The Last Temptations of Jesus Christ.” He also shared a long list of films that were banned by Singapore for one or the other reason.
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