New Delhi: Noted Bollywood Film maker Anurg Kashyap who is also the voice to bravely talk about various issues in the country and politics has criticized the Central government for revoking Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
Taking a light dig at BJP’s decision on scrapping Article 370 after the government announced yesterday, directing the tweet at PM Modi, Anurag Kashyap wrote that it is “scary” to see “One Man” thinking he “knows what is right for the benefit of 1,200,000,000 people”, India reports.
“You know what is scary , that One Man thinks that he knows exactly what’s the right thing to do for the benefit of 1,200,000,000 people and has the access to the power to execute it,” wrote the Gangs of Wasseypur director.
The Central government’s decision to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir state to make it Union territory was also criticized by many.
Kashyap wrote, “Article 370 ya 35A, iske baare mein main zyada nahi keh sakta. Iska implication, history, ya facts main abhi bhi samjha nahi hoon. Kabhi lagta hai jaana chahiye tha, kabhi lagta hai kyu gaya. Na main Kashmiri Musalman hoon, na main Kashmiri Pandit. Mera Kashmiri dost kehta hai Kashmir ki kahaani Rashomon ki tarah hai. (Article 370 or 35A, I cannot speak much on them. Their implication, history or facts – I still haven’t understood them. At times it feels it should have been scrapped, at times it feels why was it scrapped. Neither am I a Kashmiri Muslim, nor am I a Kashmiri Pandit. My Kashmiri friend tells me that the story of Kashmir is like Rashomon.)”
Rashomon is the legendary film by Akira Kurosawa is about the same story that tells about the rape of a bride and along with the murder of her samurai husband, from various viewpoints – “all of whom are correct and all of whom are wrong”.
The story has different opinions from the narrator’s point of view.
Speaking further on his reference of Rashomon in his tweet Anurag Kashyap said:
“Kain pehlu hai Kashmir ke. Sabhi sahi aur sabhi galat. Bas itna jaanta hoon ki jis tareeke se yeh sab hua, sahi nahi tha. (There are several aspects to Kashmir. All of them are correct, all of them are wrong. All I know is that the way all of this happened, is not correct.),” wrote Anurag Kashyap.