The Kashmir Files

1.50

Anupam Kher is the emotional core of this overwrought film

here may be other films which would gather other points-of-view; it doesn''t, for example, touch upon how people are still being killed even after the abrogation of Article 370, and what that says about the 'vaadi' today. 'The Kashmir Files' is not that film, and doesn�t pretend to be. In all of the ghastly excesses it shows (a terrorist forcing a wife to sup on the blood of her husband, a live woman being sawed in half), what emerges is the deep-seated anger of the Kashmiri Pandits: the fires have been banked but the embers are still burning. This is a film which stokes those embers, not examine the way forward � what else are we supposed to think when it closes on the face of a young boy, shot point-blank in the forehead?(more)

Source: shubhra Gupta, Indian Express

2.00

Anupam Kher is the soul of this gut-wrenching film that's brazen and brutal

The Kashmir Files is not an easy watch. You would cry, sob, feel scared watching the tragedy of lakhs of men and women who were made refugees overnight. Thankfully, it is not your typical Bollywood masala film based on true events and told with the colours of a rainbow. Agnihotri tells the horrible tale as it should have been told.(more)

Source: Monika, Hindustan Times

3.00

The Kashmir Files is an unfiltered, disturbing plea to be heard

Anupam Kher's heart-aching performance leaves a lump in your throat. As a man pining for his lost home, Kher is outstanding. Pallavi Joshi is equally effective. Given her acting prowess, you wish her character was more layered. Chinmay Mandlekar and Mithun Chakraborty are competent in their respective roles.(more)

Source: Renuka, Times Of India