The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri brewed controversy again by claiming that ‘Bhopalis’ are homosexuals. Congress leader Digvijay Singh retaliate at the problematic comment made by the filmmaker. Earlier during an interview, The Kashmir Files directed claimed that he was not a Bhopali (a native of Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal).

“You ask a Bhopali. You meet me in private and I will explain. In general terms they can be called homosexual. ‘Nawabi Shauq’ wala Vyakti,” Agnihotri was quoted saying in the interview.

Interestingly, the video clip of the said quote went viral just a day before Agnihotri was all set to visit Bhopal as a guest of a film festival organized by Chitra Bharati called the Chitra Bharati Film Festival (CBFF). The film festival is backed by RSS-backed Bharatiya Chitra Sadhana.

Meanwhile, after Agnihotri’s strange comments went viral, Congress leader Digvijay Singh took to Twitter and said how he never felt what Agnihotri shared during his time at Bhopal. “Wherever you live, “Sangat has an effect”,” Digvijay Singh’s tweet read.

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1. The Facts of the Matter
2. Netizens React to Vivek Agnihotri’s Remarks
3. Congress Leader Digvijay Singh Retaliates
4. Vivek Agnihotri’s History of Crass Statements

The Facts of the Matter

With The Kashmir Files becoming a box-office blockbuster, and the sentimental appreciation the film ha garnered so far, the film’s director Vivek Agnihotri has become a household name. Recently, the filmmaker brewed controversy after his remarks on Bhopal’s citizens being “homosexuals” went viral on Twitter.

In a clip that’s currently going viral on Twitter, Agnihotri can be heard saying how he is from Bhopal but doesn’t call himself a Bhopali as it carries a connotation. He adds that when a person calls themselves a Bhopali, it means that they are homosexual.

“I am from Bhopal, but I do not call myself a Bhopali because that carries a certain connotation. If someone calls himself a Bhopali, it generally means that person is a homosexual.. someone with ‘nawabi ‘fantasies’,” Agnihotri said in the interview, as quoted by India Today.

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Netizens React to Vivek Agnihotri’s Remarks

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Congress Leader Digvijay Singh Retaliates

After Vivek Agnihotri’s remarks on citizens of Bhopal being homosexuals went viral, Congress leader Digvijay Singh took to Twitter and retaliated with a tweet which read, “Vivek Agnihotri ji, this could be your experience, but not that of a common Bhopal citizen. I have also been in Bhopal and with its people since 1977, but I never had this experience. You can say, ‘there’s always an influence of the company you keep’”.

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Vivek Agnihotri’s History of Crass Statements

It should be noted that this is not the first time Vivek Agnihotri made a problematic statement that raised brows and stirred controversy. Further, Agnihotri again turned heads when he started deleting his old bigoted and problematic tweets of Twitter in an attempt to whitewash his persona.

Alt-News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in the past have shared several screenshots of Agnihotri’s deleted tweets where the filmmaker made some cringe-worthy statements. In one of the tweets, The Kashmir Files director shared a meme of Tata Nano with text that read – “What makes nano the safest car for women? There’s simply no way to get gang-raped in here”.

What makes the tweet all the more problematic is the timing of it. Agnihotri tweeted the “joke” on October 23, 2013, around the time when Indian masses were already agitated about the Shakti-Mills gang-rape case in which a 22-year-old was gang-raped by five men in August. Further, the tweet came barely ten months after the devastating and shameful Nirbhaya gang-rape.

 

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