Vivek Agnihotri
Vivek Agnihotri | |
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Born | 10 November |
Education | Indian Institute of Mass Communication |
Occupations |
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Notable work | The Kashmir Files, The Tashkent Files |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Website | vivekagnihotri |
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (born 10 November)[3] is an Indian film director, screenwriter and author who works in Hindi cinema. As of 2022[update], he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification[4] and a cultural representative of Indian Cinema at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.[5] He won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay - Dialogues for The Tashkent Files (2019). He also wrote and directed The Kashmir Files (2022). Agnihotri started his career with advertorial agencies and moved to producing and directing tele-serials. He debuted in Bollywood with the crime thriller Chocolate (2005) and has directed multiple films since.
Early life and education
Agnihotri was born in Tilhar, Uttar Pradesh[6][7] He studied at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before enrolling at Harvard Extension School for a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management.[8][9][a] In interviews with media, he has also mentioned Bhopal School of Social Sciences and Jawaharlal Nehru University among his almae matres.[11][12]
Career
Advertising and television serials
Agnihotri started his career with the advertising agencies Ogilvy and McCann, and served as creative director for campaigns of Gillette and Coca-Cola.[8][9] In 1994, he became involved with the directing and production of several television serials; his work was positively received.[8][9][13][14][15] In 2018, Agnihotri claimed that had received threats for using the name Mohammad in his short film Mohammad and Urvashi.[16][17]
Social Work
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri also runs an organization by the name of IAmBuddha Foundation, whose work is to help people. People gave their performance.[18] The funds coming from the program were donated to the Corona victims. Actors Anupam Kher, Sufi singer Kailash Kher, Ashwin Sanghi, folk singer Malini Awasthi, Amish Tripathi, Padmashree Suresh Wadkar, Alok Chaturvedi, Ratan Sharda, Prasoon Joshi, veterans who joined the Ek Saath India Will Rise Again event organized by IAmBuddha Foundation and Anupam Kher Foundation[19][20][21][22] Sonal Mansingh, Sonu Nigam, Akshay Rathi, Sanjeev Kapoor, Dr Harish Shetty, Singer Shan, Ankita Raina, were the major attractions.[23][24][25] During the Corona period, many people joined him with the initiative taken by Vivek Agnihotri with his Instagram and Twitter handle and many needy people were helped by the Foundation, apart from this many small businessmen were also helped by Vivek Agnihotri.[26] IAmBuddha Foundation gave five scholarships worth Rs 15 lakh to 5 students of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal.[27] Out of these 5 scholarships were given to 3 girl students. Earlier the same foundation had made some financial contribution for the Kashmiri Hindu community in Jagti near Jammu and raised funds for the Kashmiri community during COVID.[28][29][30] Vivek Agnihotri had also raised funds for the people who suffered in Corona through painting.[31] He made the painting in free time and announced that whatever money would come from selling this painting would go to the Corona victims.[32][33][34]
Filmography
Agnihotri debuted in Bollywood with Chocolate (2005), a remake of the 1995 Hollywood neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects. Critical reception of the movie was negative,[35][36] and the film fared poorly at box office.[37][38] In 2018, Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta would accuse Agnihotri of inappropriate behaviour during its filming. He allegedly asked her to strip and dance to give expression cues to her male co-star Irrfan Khan during a close-up shot and retreated only after Irrfan and Suniel Shetty rebuffed him. Agnihotri denied the allegations as "false and frivolous", and filed a defamation case against Dutta.[39][40] Sattyajit Gazmer, the film's assistant director, also disputed Tanushree's allegations.[41][42][43]
Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal is about an all-Asian football team in the United Kingdom that wins trophies while fighting on-field discrimination and the local municipality that wants to sell the team's ground.[44][45] It received poor reception from critics[46] and did "average" business at the box office.[47][48][38] Hate Story received mixed critical reception[49] and fared moderately at the box office.[50] Buddha in a Traffic Jam featured his wife Pallavi[51] and premiered at Mumbai International Film Festival in 2014;[52] it was received unfavourably by critics[53] and severely under-performed at the box office.[54][55] Junooniyat was also subject to poor reviews[56] and fared similarly.[57]
Agnihotri's 2014 erotic thriller Zid received poor reviews[58] but did average business at the box office.[59] However, Agnihotri has since claimed that credit for direction and screenplay was wrongly attributed to him, and that he was not involved with the film.[60] The Tashkent Files became a sleeper box-office hit and won National Film Awards.[61][62] In March 2022, Agnihotri released The Kashmir Files on the Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus; the film has become a blockbuster hit.[63][64][65] Shortly after the release of the film, he was provided Y-category security detail across the country by the Ministry of Home Affairs based on inputs from the Intelligence Bureau.[66]
Agnihotri has said that his upcoming film, The Delhi Files, will be the last in the Files trilogy, which is "evidently about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots."[67]
Film certification
In 2017, Agnihotri was selected as convenor by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in the preview committee of 48th International Film Festival of India.[68] The same year, he was selected as member on board of India's Central Board of Film Certification.[69][70]
ICCR
On 15 September 2020, Agnihotri was appointed as cultural representative at Indian Council for Cultural Relations.[71] He would represent Indian Cinema at ICCR.[72]
Urban Naxals
In 2018, Agnihotri wrote Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam,[73][74][75] in which he described individuals in academia and media who were allegedly colluding with Naxalites in a bid to overthrow the Indian government and were thus "invisible enemies of India" as "Urban Naxals".[76][77]
Critics said the term is "vague rhetoric" that is designed to discredit intellectuals who are critical of the establishment and political right and to stifle dissent.[78][79] Reviews in the Organiser and The New Indian Express had praised the work.[77] The Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani endorsed Agnihotri's views of Jadavpur University and Jawaharlal Nehru University for having refused to screen Buddha in a Traffic Jam.[80]
Personal life
Agnihotri married Indian actress Pallavi Joshi in 1997 and has two children.[81] He has described himself as a supporter of Narendra Modi, but not of the Bharatiya Janata Party that Modi belongs to.[82] Agnihotri supports cannabis legalization.[83]
In 2022, Agnihotri announced that he was starting knee surgery after suffering a cartilage tear the previous year, which resulted in him suffering a stress fracture. He had ignored the cartilage tear for one and half years while producing The Kashmir Files.[84]
Social media
Fact checkers have noted Agnihotri to have shared misleading content from his Twitter account.[85][86] In September 2018, Agnihotri tweeted a listicle claiming that a survey from the BBC found that the Indian National Congress was the second most corrupt party in the world. The survey was fake and an online editor writing for the BBC said that they have never conducted such surveys.[87] In November 2018, Agnihotri tweeted a misleading video that appeared to show that Indian political activist Kanhaiya Kumar had converted to Islam. According to Boom Fact Check, the video was "a compilation of three separate clips which have taken Kanhaiya's statements out of context from the entire speech."[88] In March 2019, Agnihotri falsely claimed that former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was responsible for the outcome of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Nehru had previously died in May 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri was Prime Minister during the war.[89] In January 2020, Agnihotri tweeted a doctored image of an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protester that he claimed was real.[86] In February 2020, Agnihotri falsely claimed that cannabis kills COVID-19.[83]
In September 2018, Twitter locked his account until he agreed to delete a tweet denigrating Swara Bhaskar. In response to Swara calling out politician P. C. George, who called an alleged rape victim a prostitute, Vivek tweeted "Where is the placard - '#MeTooProstituteNun'?". The tweet was interpreted as calling Swara a prostitute. Agnihotri defended his tweet and said he was making a point about the placarding by liberals at selective instances of alleged perpetrators belonging to the Hindu community.[90]
Filmography
Year | Title | Producer | Director | Screenwriter |
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2005 | Chocolate | |||
2007 | Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal | |||
2012 | Hate Story | |||
2014 | Zid | |||
2016 | Buddha in a Traffic Jam | |||
Junooniyat | ||||
2019 | The Tashkent Files | |||
2022 | The Kashmir Files | |||
2023 | The Delhi Files[91] |
Bibliography
- Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam. Garuda Prakashan. 2018. ISBN 9781942426059.
- Who Killed Shastri?: The Tashkent Files. Bloomsbury India. 2020. ISBN 9789388630610.
Accolades
- Best Screenplay (Dialogues) at the 67th National Film Awards: The Tashkent Files.[92]
- Best Writer and Director at Jakarta International Film Festival: Buddha in a Traffic Jam.[93]
Notes
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- ^ "Vivek Agnihotri's Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam | Going beyond the Maoist myth". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ "Urban Naxals - The Making of Buddha In A Traffic Jam". Indic Today. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ "He's making a list of 'Urban Naxals', but who is Vivek Agnihotri?". ThePrint. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ a b @eOrganiser (6 June 2018). "Book Review #UrbanNaxals : The Untold Story of Communist Terrorism" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Coverage and commentary on the term in mainstream media:
- "He's making a list of 'Urban Naxals', but who is Vivek Agnihotri?". ThePrint. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- "Swara Bhasker on Urban Naxals: You cannot punish people for thinking". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- "From Anti-National to Urban Naxal: The Trajectory of Dissent in India". NewsClick. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- "Conversations with". Firstpost. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- "Why India activist arrests sparked outrage". 31 August 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- "What Makes An Urban Naxal?". Arré. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- "A propaganda tool called #UrbanNaxal". Rediff. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- Singh, Vivashwan (5 June 2015). "'Ghoul' and the Spectre of Totalitarianism". Economic and Political Weekly. 53 (42).
- Roy, Vaishna (8 September 2018). "Just another day in paradise". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ Coverage and commentary on the term in scholarly sources:
- Singh, Mohinder; Dasgupta, Rajarshi (2 January 2019). "Exceptionalising democratic dissent: a study of the JNU event and its representations". Postcolonial Studies. 22 (1): 59–78. doi:10.1080/13688790.2019.1568169. ISSN 1368-8790. S2CID 151037277.
- Udupa, Sahana (July 2019). "Nationalism in the Digital Age : Fun as a Metapractice of Extreme Speech". International Journal of Communication. 13: 3148. ISSN 1932-8036.
- ^ Singh, Vivashwan (5 June 2015). "'Ghoul' and the Spectre of Totalitarianism". Economic and Political Weekly. 53 (42): 7–8.
- ^ "'Didn't Like Him Very Much on First Meet': Pallavi Joshi on Husband Vivek Agnihotri". News18. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- ^ "भाजपा का नहीं, बल्कि घोर मोदी समर्थक हूं: विवेक अग्निहोत्री" [I'm not a supporter of the BJP, but a strong Modi supporter: Vivek Agnihotri]. Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ a b Chaudhuri, Pooja (8 February 2020). "Cannabis kills coronavirus? Vivek Agnihotri shares scientific misinformation via meme". Alt News. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ "Vivek Agnihotri Suffers From Stress Fracture After Ignoring Injury, Starts Treatment, Fans Hope For A Quick Recovery". News18. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ Sources which say Agnihotri shared misleading content
- Rampal, Nikhil (25 December 2018). "2018's top 10 fake news: From 'Pak zindabad' to post claiming Congress most 'corrupt party'". The Print. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- Sidharth, Arjun (11 March 2019). "Vivek Agnihotri makes false claim of Nehru responsible for outcome of 1965 Indo-Pak war". Alt News. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- Team, BOOM FACT Check (12 November 2018). "Vivek Agnihotri Tweets Misleading Video Of Kanhaiya Kumar Speaking About Islam | BOOM". boomlive.in. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- Chaudhuri, Pooja (8 February 2020). "Cannabis kills coronavirus? Vivek Agnihotri shares scientific misinformation via meme". Alt News. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ a b Chowdhury, Archis (10 January 2020). "Vivek Agnihotri Posts A Doctored Image Of Anti-CAA Protester". www.boomlive.in. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ Rampal, Nikhil (25 December 2018). "2018's top 10 fake news: From 'Pak zindabad' to post claiming Congress most 'corrupt party'". The Print. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ Team, BOOM FACT Check (12 November 2018). "Vivek Agnihotri Tweets Misleading Video Of Kanhaiya Kumar Speaking About Islam | BOOM". boomlive.in. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ Sidharth, Arjun (11 March 2019). "Vivek Agnihotri makes false claim of Nehru responsible for outcome of 1965 Indo-Pak war". Alt News. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ Sources covering the episode:
- "Vivek Agnihotri calls Swara Bhasker a 'prostitute', she single-handedly gets his Twitter account locked". DNA India. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- "Vivek Agnihotri forced to delete abusive tweet against Swara Bhasker". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- "After Deletion Of His Tweet, Vivek 'Thanks' Swara Bhasker For Curbing His Freedom Of Expression". indiatimes.com. 12 September 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- Srivastava, Namrata (12 September 2018). "Standing up against abuse". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Vivek Agnihotri's the Delhi Files about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots-Entertainment News , Firstpost". 22 April 2022.
- ^ "Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri on National Film Award for best dialogue writer: At least now nobody will question my capabilities". Hindustan Times. 24 March 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Service, Tribune News. "'Buddha' back from 'traffic jam". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 8 June 2021.