Vivek Agnihotri complains he’s ‘imprisoned’ in his own country as he shares video of himself flanked by cops. Watch

The video showed him walking along the foggy streets of Uttar Pradesh, flanked by a handful of policemen. “This is the cost of freedom of expression in India,” read the text on the video. The filmmaker has been in Lucknow for a while, prepping his next film, The Vaccine War. “What a waste of taxpayer’s money!” one person wrote in response to his tweet. Another person asked, “That aside, how’s your new 20Cr house? Everything good?”

Watch Agnihotri’s video here:

The price one has to pay to show the Genocide of Hindus in Kashmir. In a Hindu majority country.
Freedom of expression, ha! #ImprisonedInOwnCountry #Fatwa pic.twitter.com/9AZUdbTyca

— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) December 23, 2022

In May, the filmmaker was granted Y-category security by CRPF in the wake of perceived ‘threats’ to his life, sources told the Indian Express. This happened weeks after the release of The Kashmir Files, which was given a lowkey release but went on to become one of the biggest Hindi language hits of the year on word-of-mouth alone. The film attracted a new wave of controversy recently, when the jury president at the International Film Festival of India, the Israeli director Nadav Lapid, called the film a ‘vulgar’ work of propaganda during the festival’s closing ceremony.

The Vaccine War will be released on Independence Day 2023. Agnihotri has described it as ‘an incredible true story of a war that you didn’t know India fought’. He has also announced the third instalment in his ‘Files’ trilogy, The Delhi Files.