The closing ceremony of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) being held in Goa ended on a sour note and has caused a massive controversy over the comments made by the festival’s jury head, Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid on The Kashmir Files. In his remarks, which have now snowballed into a major row that has also elicited reactions from the Ambassador of Israel to India, Lapid questioned the Vivek Agnihotri directed movie’s inclusion in the competitive section. “There were 15 films in the international competition — the front window of the festival. Fourteen out of them had the...