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.
Some Bollywood insiders and opposition critics say more films are promoting the agenda of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. But an Information Ministry official said the BJP simply wants to "inculcate good cultural and social values through movies." © Illustration by Hiroko Oshima
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