NEW DELHI -- When "The Kashmir Files," a film about the Hindu exodus from Muslim-majority Kashmir in the early 1990s, opened in India last year, it made more money in one weekend than it cost to produce.
Touted as a fictionalized but largely authentic account of the plight of Kashmiri Pandits who fled a pro-Pakistan insurgency that targeted them, the movie had a modest budget of 250 million rupees ($3 million), according to the industry website Box Office India. All told, it has grossed around 10 times that, the site's data shows.
