In a recent video, The News Minute’s Pooja Prasanna made an interesting comparison between films like The Kashmir Files, The Kerala Story, The Sabarmati Report, Veer Savarkar, Razakars, etc, to Adolf Hitler’s notorious propaganda film Triumph of the Will and other Nazi propaganda films However, in their eagerness to draw parallels between these two, they failed to mention a critical point that undermines their entire argument.

Triumph of the Will, widely recognized as one of the most influential propaganda films in history, was directed by Leni Riefenstahl, a woman who later became a symbol of artistic brilliance. What Pooja Prasanna and the team at The News Minute conveniently left out is the fact that Riefenstahl, a woman celebrated by many liberals, worked for Nazi propaganda and later even collaborated with The Sunday Times of London, a prestigious liberal newspaper.

In 1972, The New York Times had published an article stating that Riefenstahl will be on assignment for The Sunday Times of London, with which she had earlier freelanced.

The glaring hypocrisy is that, in their condemnation of the political narrative pushed by The Kashmir Files, and other films, TNM ignores the inconvenient truth about Riefenstahl’s post-war collaborations with mainstream left-liberal outlets. This raises a crucial question: why were liberal heroes, such as Riefenstahl, even in the service of Hitler’s regime, using cinema to push the Nazi agenda? It seems odd that a director who glorified one of the most genocidal regimes in modern history would be lauded as a hero by liberals in later years.

Big history fail by liberals at News Minute

They try to compare Kashmir Files to Hitler's propaganda movie "Triumph of the Will"

But they don't say that the director of Hitler's propaganda movie was Leni Riefenstahl, a liberal hero who later worked for The Times of London! pic.twitter.com/v54dwor3B1

— Abhishek (@AbhishBanerj) January 6, 2025

By failing to acknowledge this historical contradiction, The News Minute inadvertently exposes its nefarious ways of distorting history to suit a its leftist Dravidianist political narrative. When it comes to condemning political films and their potential for influencing public opinion, they seem happy to forget the left-liberal establishment’s own uncomfortable history with figures who worked for the Nazi regime.

This oversight by News Minute is more than a slip-up; it’s an act of historical whitewashing. While it’s easy to point fingers at contemporary films like The Kashmir Files, it’s crucial to reflect on the uncomfortable alliances that were formed by so-called liberal heroes who worked to advance Nazi propaganda. 

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A clip of actress Sai Pallavi, who is known for her roles in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films, has gone viral on social media in which she has compared the Kashmiri Hindu genocide that happened in the early 1990s with stray incidents of clashes involving cattle smugglers.

In an interview to a Telugu channel, actress Sai Pallavi said “Some days ago, ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie was released. So, when The Kashmir Files was released, they showed how Kashmiri Pandits were killed during that time. How Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir were killed were shown. Now, let’s take, in covid time, someone was taking a cow in a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was a Muslim. Some people beat him up and shouted Jai Sri Ram. Where is the difference between the two incidents?”

Dear @Sai_Pallavi92

There is a huge difference in a random Muslim being beaten & an entire community being uprooted.

Please don't trivialise my pain.

Come & see any of our broken homes & hearts. We are witnesses to Genocide but await justice.

Not Everything is Propaganda. pic.twitter.com/YhN9r2QTKM

— Kashmiri Hindu (@BattaKashmiri) June 14, 2022

In an attempt to come across as politically neutral she said ““If I was from a Leftist family or from a Rightist family, then maybe I would have favoured a side. But I was raised in a neutral family where they taught you to have to be a good human being first. The oppressed should be protected irrespective of left-wing and right-wing. I grew up in a neutral environment. I heard about this left-wing and right-wing, but we can’t say who is right and who is wrong.”

She also said that while we think of Pakistani army as terrorists, Pakistani people would think the same of Indian security forces.

“They (Naxals) thought at that time that they could only get justice by violence. It happened in the past, long back. Our perspectives may be different. Pakistani people think Indian security forces are terrorists, we think the same for their forces. It is very difficult to say whether it (the Naxal movement) is right or wrong. It depends on the situation at that time. They thought violence was the only way, as per their situation.”, she said.

Many on social media have lashed out at Sai Pallavi for trivializing the plight of Kashmiri Hindus with that of stray incidents of violence involving cattle smugglers.

I don't carry hatred for @Sai_Pallavi92 , many in India have not been aware of what happened to us , as a community … Her equating us with cow smugglers is probably unintentional , i invite her to our refugee camps for better understanding

May God keep her blessed https://t.co/zl5hqkywv7

— Pawan Durani (@PawanDurani) June 14, 2022

Dear @Sai_Pallavi92 ,
Without knowing what has happened, please stop lecturing or trying to relate the incidents to Kashmiri exodus. There is huge difference. Stop being hypocrite. https://t.co/8Xyrt4tZn7

— Praveen Reddy (@ImPraveenReddy) June 15, 2022

I liked #SaiPallavi.
Not any more.

I never complained about her pimple filled cheeks, ugly shaped ass, bad hair styles.

But going forward I will hate her. As she tells killing a cow smuggler and killing Kashmiri Pundits are same.

She might say killing Terrorist and KP is same.

— Ghoomne Chalo (@xGhoomneChalo) June 14, 2022

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