Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has been making headlines ever since he supported Vivek Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files at the promotional event of SS Rajamouli’s RRR. Talking about the film, he congratulated the team and added that he'll soon watch it. The actor also urged his fans to watch it. 

However, social media users trolled him and called it a gimmick. They went after his much-hyped film Laal Singh Chaddha calling for its boycott. Amidst the trolling, an old video has now resurfaced on the internet in which the superstar is talking about the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. 

The clip is from an interview from 2016 in which he talked about the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits at length and called it ‘shameful’. In the throwback video, he is saying, "Jaise aapne Kashmiri Panditon ki baat ki, main aapko bata raha hoon, bahut hi sharmnaak baat hai. Hamare desh mein hamare rehte hue, kuch log hai jinko apne gharon se nikala gaya. Yeh bohut hi sharamnaak baat hai (Like you have spoken about Kashmiri Pandits, let me tell you that it is very shameful that people were thrown out of their homes while we living in our country. This is very shameful)".

The Ghajini star added, "Sabse zayda sharamnaak baat hai un logon ke liye jo wahan rehte hai. Unka yeh farz banta hai ki woh apne Kashmiri Pandit bhai ko apne ghar mein laake rakhein aur bolein ki hum aapko secure karenge. Kashmir ki sarkar ka Kashmir ke logon ka sabse pehla yeh farz banta hai (The most shameful thing was the people who were living there. It was their duty to bring their Kashmiri Pandit brothers to their house and tell them that they will secure them. It was prime duty of Kashmir’s government and Kashmiris who were residing there)".

Watch the video below:

Aamir Khan spoke about Kashmiri Pandits many many years before The Kashmir Files. This was in 2016. Absolutely love him for this. pic.twitter.com/2EDr5Fbm11

We wonder how the trolls will react to it. 

Talking about The Kashmir Files, the film stars Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Mithun Chakraborty, Darshan Kumar among others in pivotal roles. Ever since its release, the critically-acclaimed movie is breaking several records at the box office and is all set to enter the Rs. 200 crore club.

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