A shocking, riveting and brutally honest account of the victims of the Kashmir Genocide, The Kashmir Files, directed by National award winning filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri is taking the box office by storm!
The film had a great opening day grossing over 4.25 crores at the world wide box office and almost doubled its footfalls on Saturday grossing over 10.10 crores, with domestic collections amounting to 8.5 crores and 1.6 crores from overseas collections.
While Netizens referred to the film as a ‘masterpiece’, several critics too referred to the film as ‘closest to the truth’, ‘flashes of genuine pain’, ‘impactful watch’ and a ‘heart wrenching story’. The positive word of mouth has worked in the film’s favour as the advance for Sunday suggests that ‘The Kashmir Files’ may be the biggest hit post pandemic.
On Friday, ‘The Kashmir Files’ occupied 550 screens and will now play in 2000 screens across 1100 plus locations, testimony to the kind of rare momentum the film is showing.
It remains to be seen how the film will fare post the weekend but going by early reports it’s looking as though Monday numbers will trump its Friday opening numbers.
‘The Kashmir Files’ boasts of a powerhouse of talent including National award winners Pallavi Joshi ,Prakash Belavadi, Anupam Kher and Mithun Chakraborty and other acclaimed names like Darshan Kumar, Bhasha Sumbali , Chinmay Mandlekar,Puneet Issar, Mrinal Kulkarni , Atul Srivastava , and Prithviraj Sarnaik.
‘The Kashmir Files’ is directed by Vivek Agnihotri and is produced by Tej Narayan Agarwal, Abhishek Agarwal, Pallavi Joshi and Vivek Agnihotri under the Zee Studios, IAmBuddha and Abhishek Agarwal Arts banners. The gripping drama is now out in theatres nationwide.