After being accused of commercialising the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, which happened during late 1989 and early 1990, through his latest directorial Shikara, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra on Sunday penned an open letter, elaborating the sufferings he along with his family members had to face when they were driven out of their homeland as a result of being targeted by Islamist insurgents three decades ago.

Addressing the letter to young Indians, Chopra took to Facebook and wrote: "The recent incidents related to Shikara have deeply disturbed me. I am an affected Kashmiri Hindu. My house in Kashmir was ransacked and my family members attacked. My mother who came with a small suitcase to Bombay for the premiere of Parinda (1989) could not go back home - she died in exile in Mumbai.