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A visual from the 2019 Kashmir film ‘Mudda 370 J&K’ is being falsely shared as real footage of the 1990 exodus of Hindus from Kashmir. While historical records confirm that anti-Hindu slogans were appealed from mosques in the Kashmir Valley, the viral video clip is not of that incident, but a visual depiction from the film.
By: Abhishek Parashar
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Published: Feb 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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New Delhi (Vishvas News). Social media users are sharing a video clip in which a cleric can be heard warning Hindus to leave Kashmir. The context in which the video is being shared suggests that it depicts a real incident.
However, Vishvas News found this claim to be misleading. According to news reports from sources including BBC, during the 1990s, Muslim terrorist groups in Kashmir targeted minority Hindus, killed them, set houses on fire, vandalised religious places, and warned them to leave the valley using mosque loudspeakers.
However, the viral clip is not related to a real incident but a visual from a film based on Kashmir.
What is viral?
Instagram user ‘proudbhartiya__‘ shared the viral video, with the caption, “After a few years, the same situation will prevail in the areas where brotherhood is maintained, just wait and watch, keep crying for free potatoes, onion, oil and electricity…they are hell-bent on taking over the whole country, impotent Hindus…announcements were being made from mosques, kill the infidels, women were being raped…there is still time, Hindus wake up…don’t become secular insects…don’t know how many have died in the name of brotherhood.”
Investigation
Actors like Hiten Tejwani and Manoj Joshi are seen in the viral video clip, confirming that the viral clip is from a film.
Based on this, we investigated further and found the original source of the video clip on imdb.com. It is from the trailer of the film ‘Mudda 370 J&K’.
According to the information given, ‘Mudda 370 J&K’ is reportedly based on real events from Kashmir, “In 1990, an estimated population of around seven lakh Hindu Kashmiris were forcibly uprooted from their homeland by the Muslim fundamentalists of Kashmir in collaboration with the Pakistani Army.”
Our investigation confirms that the viral video clip is a visual from this film, not a real incident.
It is noteworthy that by the end of 1990, loudspeakers from the mosques in Srinagar were used to threaten Hindus to leave the valley.
According to BBC’s report ‘Kashmiri Hindus: Driven out and insignificant’ dated April 6, 2016, “Muslim terror groups have targeted minority Hindus, killing them, burning down homes and damaging religious sites, and warning them to leave the Valley through loudspeakers from mosques.”
These incidents are documented in several reports and books.
Referring to this incident in ‘Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration’, author Snedden Christopher writes, “Some other slogans were clearly against the pro-India Kashmiri Pandits. By the end of January 1990, slogans like ‘Infidels leave Kashmir’ started being raised on loudspeakers in mosques in Srinagar.”
Similarly, Chitralekha Zutshi’s book ‘Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation’ published by Cambridge University Press, states, “Kashmir for whom? For Muslims…like anti-Hindu slogans were being raised from mosques and this led to the exodus of Hindus (Pandits) from the valley.”
We contacted senior film journalist Parag Chhapekar regarding the viral video clip. He confirmed that the footage is from the film ‘Mudda 370 J&K’, based on real events in Kashmir.
The user who shared the viral video clip with the misleading claim has nearly two lakh followers on Instagram.
Conclusion: A visual from the 2019 Kashmir film ‘Mudda 370 J&K’ is being falsely shared as real footage of the 1990 exodus of Hindus from Kashmir. While historical records confirm that anti-Hindu slogans were appealed from mosques in the Kashmir Valley, the viral video clip is not of that incident, but a visual depiction from the film.
Claim Review : Hindus Are Being Threatened To Leave Kashmir
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Claimed By : Instagram user 'proudbhartiya__'
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Fact Check : False
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