Amid the huge row surrounding Netflix webseries ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, sources within the authorities have advised NDTV that it’s taking the matter very critically and added that “no one has the fitting to play with the feelings of individuals of this nation”.
“No person has the fitting to play with the feelings of individuals of this nation. India’s tradition and civilisation ought to at all times be revered. You need to assume earlier than portraying one thing in a incorrect method. The federal government is taking it very critically,” a highly-place supply mentioned.
This comes hours after Netflix India’s content material chief Monika Shergill was summoned by the Union Data and Broadcasting Ministry amid the row surrounding the webseries portraying the 1999 hijack of an Indian Airways flight by Pakistan-based terror outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.
Lots of of social media customers have accused creators of the net collection of intentionally altering names of the hijackers to “Bhola” and “Shankar”. The collection, created by Anubhav Sinha and Trishant Srivastava, is impressed by the e-book ‘Flight Into Worry: The Captain’s Story’ Devi Sharan, captain of the flight, and journalist Srinjoy Chowdhury. It stars Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma and Pankaj Kapur in key roles.
The online collection captured the hijacking of Indian Airways flight 814 on December 24, 1999. The airplane, with 191 fliers onboard, took off from Nepal’s Kathmandu and was headed for Delhi. Quickly after take-off, 5 hijackers, who had been posing as passengers, took management of the airplane. It later made a number of landings, at Amritsar, Lahore and Dubai, earlier than being taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
The federal government, then led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was pressured to launch three dreaded terrorists — Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar — from Indian prisons to safe the discharge of the hostages. In response to reviews, Taliban authorities helped the hijackers and the launched terrorists attain Pakistan.
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A Union House Ministry assertion dated January 6, 2000, mentioned the names of the hijackers had been Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim and Shakir. “To the passengers of the hijacked place these hijackers got here to be identified respectively as (1) Chief, (2) Physician, (3) Burger, (4) Bhola and (5) Shankar, the names by which the hijackers invariably addressed each other,” the House Ministry assertion says.
A number of journalists who coated the week-long hijacking again in 1999 have put out social media posts amid the controversy, saying that passengers had advised them that the hijackers used these names to handle one another.
Quickly after Netflix began screening the webseries, a bit of social media customers criticised the creators for utilizing “Bhola” and “Shankar” for terrorists’ names.
Amongst those that slammed the creators of the present was BJP chief Amit Malviya. “The hijackers of IC-814 had been dreaded terrorists, who acquired aliases to cover their Muslim identities. Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha, legitimised their felony intent, by furthering their non-Muslim names. Consequence? Many years later, individuals will assume Hindus hijacked IC-814,” he mentioned in a submit on X. “Left’s agenda to whitewash the crimes of Pakistani terrorists, all Muslims, served. That is the ability of cinema, which the Communists have been utilizing aggressively, because the 70s. Even perhaps earlier,” he added.
