Ikkis - Sriram Raghavan's film is what's wrong with Indian elite
I was fairly unaware of this film Ikkis, which is apparently based on Veer Lt. Khetrapal who died in the 1971 war. It's probably because the lead role is played another nepo kid (Agastya Nanda, Amitabh Bachchan's grandson), but anyway, let me tell you my opinion about Ikkis. A disclaimer, I have not watched it, but I've read articles about it after I came across the tweets of an IA veteran Sushant Singh. Hear me out before you shoot me down. Take a look at these ⬇️ 
Sushant Singh shared an article by Uday Bhatia which admonishes "anti-Pakistan sentiment" and applauds Ikkis for "allowing Pakistani soldiers the same martial pride". I am so fucking tired. I feel like crying. Pakistani soldiers burned my dad's village only because that village was a Hindu village. My dad's little sister was so weak she died in a refugee camp. My dad was a 6-7 yo. child and he remembers EVERYTHING. My mama (mother's elder brother) has permanent vocal cord injury because when my grandparents were hiding from the Pakistan Army, they had to hold my mama's mouth so tight that the soldiers would not hear his crying. Pakistani soldiers gang r*ped my mom's aunt in front of her son and husband after which the Pakistani soldiers shot the son and husband and threw their bodies to the Brahmaputra river.
This film Ikkis is hell bent on trying to be "intellectual, anti-jingoistic" and humanise Pakistani soldiers. Listen, even I as the child of genocide survivors understand that those Pakistani soldiers weren't one-dimensional monsters, they too were someone's children fighting for what they were made to believe was right. However, India as a country has still not even acknowledged that the 1971 was an anti-Hindu genocide. There's a proof of this, in the recently declassified Haksar papers which were quoted in the book The Blood Telegram by Gary J. Bass. Read the book if you haven't. The government of India during Indira Gandhi's reign did their level best to hide from the public what was actually going on in East Pakistan in 1971 which was a wholesale massacre of Hindu civilians. As India has still not recognised this genocide, making films that humanise Pakistani soldiers is irresponsible and whitewashing of a genocide. Imagine Americans making a film that "humanises" Nazi Germany soldiers. that's right you cannot imagine that because that would cause an outrage. 
Sushant Singh isn't an innocent actor. He previously shared an article right after Dipu Chandra Das, a Bangladeshi Hindu man, who was beaten up by the public, hanged and burned alive for allegedly insulting Islam. In that article, the Indian secular establishment tried their best to mitigate the public outrage by coming up with a story of "a West Bengal student studying in Bangladesh, being more afraid due to Indian hegemony rather than his Hindu identity", essentially blaming "Indian hegemony" for the sufferings of the Hindu minority in Bangladesh rather than blaming Islamist jihadists. 
Sushant Singh is a dangerous traitor who is an American paid shill. These are the people that are occupying the premium spaces in Indian policy making. No wonder why Hindu minorities are suffering in Pakistan and Bangladesh. No wonder why our genocide is continuing. This is why you will never ever gaslight me into blaming Bajrang Dal or calling Nathuram Godse a terrorist. We need thousand Godses and Dhurandhars to eliminate such traitor bastards. 
