Post the Pahalgam terror attack, social media has been busy digging out dialogues and scenes from some patriotic films in the past years, which go with the current mood of the nation- angry and upset.
It began with actor Kay Kay Menon’s scathing monologue from the 2006 film Shaurya, which has been shared widely. Google searches for the actor were up by 75 percent in the last couple of days.
In fact, HT City observed that according to Google Trends, there was a noticeable spike in searches for patriotic films too.
Uri-The Surgical Strike, starring actors Vicky Kaushal and Yami Gautam Dhar, which released in 2019, has been searched quite a lot. The interest in it spiked by 50 percent post the Pahalgam attack. Vivek Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files (2022), which was based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in the 1990s, also became a topic of interest. Searches for it shot up by 100 percent. Emraan Hashmi's latest film, Ground Zero's story is set in Kashmir and has released at a time when the situation there is creating headlines every day. As a result, searches for it suddenly rose by a whopping 400 percent.
{{/usCountry}}Uri-The Surgical Strike, starring actors Vicky Kaushal and Yami Gautam Dhar, which released in 2019, has been searched quite a lot. The interest in it spiked by 50 percent post the Pahalgam attack. Vivek Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files (2022), which was based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in the 1990s, also became a topic of interest. Searches for it shot up by 100 percent. Emraan Hashmi's latest film, Ground Zero's story is set in Kashmir and has released at a time when the situation there is creating headlines every day. As a result, searches for it suddenly rose by a whopping 400 percent.
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