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Friday, 12th Dec 2014, 5:41 PM IST Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘Junooniyat’ starring Pulkit Samrat and Yami Gautam was being shot in Kashmir and recently the locals of Kashmir hounded and attacked the team of the film. The incident took place as they had roped in Kashmiri girls in a song sequence. Talking about the incident, Vivek said, “It was all smooth in Sonmarg and we thought, ‘Wow, how different the reality is from the perception of Kashmir’.” After the shooting of the track as the unit was moving from Sonmarg, the vehicles of the team were surrounded by around 100 Kashmiri men with burning torches. He demanded that the girls should be handed over to them. The director said, “It’s not that the Kashmir is don’t want their women folk to work in films. They’re okay with women working in Kashmiri films, but not Hindi films. There were around 100 men with torches pounding on the windows of our cars demanding that we hand over the Kashmiri girls to them. Fortunately, they had finished their work and were not with us. If they were with us they would have been thrashed by their own men.” After the incident, the shooting was later conducted with high security. “We were surrounded by security personnel in Srinagar and Pahalgam. It took us seven hours to reach the airport the day we were leaving because Modiji was coming that day,” said Vivek. Now you can enjoy ad-free experience by downloading India’s first Box Office mobile app from here –Android:http://bit.ly/BOCapsuleMobileApp and iOS:bit.ly/BOCapsuleiOSApp |