It is a proud moment for Indian cinema as movies and actors from different industries win the national award. On Tuesday, the film fraternity witnessed the celebration of the National Film Awards 2023. While actors like Alia Bhatt, Kriti Sanon, Allu Arjun, and Pankaj Tripathi bagged the best actor award, movies like The Kashmir Files and Shershaah made history as well.

I'd like to thank @ZeeStudios_ and specially @punitgoenka for his immense faith in Pallavi and I and the subject. If #TheKashmirFiles is adjudged best film it's because of his proactive leadership role, consistent encouragement, total freedom, creative understanding and quickhellip pic.twitter.com/47HsIWetui

mdash Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) October 18, 2023

Amidst the celebration, The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri has sparked yet another controversy. The filmmaker took to Twitter to share some snippets from the National Film Awards. In one of the pictures with the winners, he cropped out Karan Johar from it.

Vivek Agnihotri crops Karan Johar out of the picture

It is no secret that Vivek and Karan are in a feud. In fact, the former went on to say Karan Johar's movies are superficial and serve no purpose for Bollywood.

Yesterday, Agnihotri's movie The Kashmir Files won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film on National Integration. On the other hand, KJo attended the ceremony to accept the Special Jury Award for Shershaah, a movie produced by him.

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Soon after receiving the national award, Vivek took to X (formerly known as Twitter) and shared a series of pictures from the celebration. He even shared a picture with the leading ladies, Alia Bhatt and Kriti Sanon.

Such talent. Women power. #NationalAwards pic.twitter.com/yrsSwxGpBO

mdash Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) October 17, 2023

In one of the pictures with all the national award winners, the filmmaker cropped Karan out of the same, thus igniting controversy.

Vivek Agnihotri calls Karan Johar's cinema a disaster

In an old interview, the filmmaker called KJo's cinema a disaster and said his movies have damaged the cultural fabric of India in a terrible way. He also named Shah Rukh Khan as one of the reasons why real and honest stories have lost their importance.

According to Agnihotri, Bollywood stopped being true to itself after Amitabh Bachchan's Shehenshaah.