‘The Kashmir Files’ maker Vivek Agnihotri, star Anupam Kher to be at Yogi’s oath ceremony.
Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time at a grand ceremony in Lucknow on Friday. Among the high-profile dignitaries invited for the gala event are ‘The Kashmir Files’ filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri and actor Anupam Kher, news agency PTI reported.
The film chronicling the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s has already been declared tax-free by the Yogi Adityanath. On March 20, Agnihotri along with actors Pallavi Joshi and Anupam Kher had met Adityanath in Lucknow days after the state government had exempted the film from entertainment tax.The film, which has crossed the ₹200 crore mark at the box office, has been mired in a political debate between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had backed the film, hitting out at the critics who had slammed the Vivek Agnihotri directorial.
