Public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court against Vidhu Vinod Chopra's upcoming film Shikara: The Untold Story Of Kashmiri Pandits, demanding a stay on its release and deleting some of the scenes.

Shikara is set against the backdrop of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus from the Kashmir Valley in late 1989 and early 1990, in the wake of violent Islamist insurgency. The film is scheduled to release on February 7.