The Kashmir Files' shoot cancelled owing to heavy snowfall in Srinagar

Shooting for Vivek Agnihotri's next film, The Kashmir Files, has been put on hold owing to weather problems. The crew was expected to travel to Srinagar but was stranded in Delhi after airports in Srinagar were closed owing to heavy snowfall. Eventually, the team decided to return to Mumbai. 

Agnihotri said, "We were scheduled to go from Uttarakhand to Srinagar. We took off from the Dehradun airport and reached Delhi, but as there was heavy snowfall in Kashmir, the airport was locked. Due to massive bookings in Jammu and Kashmir, it took hours to handle the security and logistical issues to shoot the movie. As at the Delhi airport we got stranded for more than ten hours, we ultimately decided to return to Mumbai and wait until the snowfall halts. When we came back to Mumbai, in those ten hours we did a lot of hard work of production planning at the airport since all the heads of department and everyone was there."

The film had earlier run into trouble after actor Mithun Chakraborty fell ill owing to food poisoning. Later that week, Agnihotri himself suffered a severely sprained leg.

However, the filmmaker is not perturbed by the setbacks. "It was a real pleasure to see Darshan Kumar, Pallavi Joshi, and others coming together. This film is made up of a lot of hardships, sacrifices, and immense struggle, and thus, I believe it is the blessing of Goddess Saraswati that despite several odds and problems, it is finally reaching the end of its schedule (sic)."

The Kashmir Files, which features Anupam Kher and Puneet Issar, is expected to be released in theatres in 2021.