The statement said that during the investigation by the department, the allegations of corruption against Lodha were found to be true, based on which a case was registered on December 7 by the Special Vigilance Unit under sections 120B and 168 of the IPC along with sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act ie PC Act.
It is being speculated that the reason behind the film's poor performance at the box office is Ayushmann Khurrana’s recent statement where the actor said that “India is a homophobic country.”
In a joint statement posted on Twitter 3 other jurors said they knew about and stand by the comments made on The Kashmir Files by the chief jury Nadav Lapid.
In 2021, During an interactive session with Mamata Banerjee that was conducted at the Y.B. Chavan Centre in Nariman Point in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Swara Bhasker appealed to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to ‘protect’ the democratic principles of the country.
Israeli filmmaker and jury head at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Nadav Lapid, referred to the Kashmiri Hindu genocide perpetrated by Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorists in the late 1980s and early 1990s as “vulgar propaganda.”