Did Vivek Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files Win The Dadasaheb Phalke Award?
By Swasti Chatterjee Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri's tweet claiming his film The Kashmir Files won the Best Film award at the Dadasaheb Phalke Awards 2023, created confusion on Tuesday with many mistaking it for the similarly named prestigious government award. The Kashmir Files, a controversial film about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits in the 90s, won the Best Film award at the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF) held on February 20, 2023. BOOM was able to ascertain that the DPIFF and the Dadasaheb Phalke award are not one and the same. The former is a private film festival where...