The BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya accused the filmmaker Anubhav Sinha for legitimizing the criminal intent of the hijackers by using their non-Muslim identities.
Malviya expressed concern that decades later, people might believe that Hindus were responsible for the hijacking of IC-814. He accused the Left of having an agenda to whitewash the crimes of Pakistani terrorists, who are all Muslims, and claimed that this has been a long-standing practice in the film industry.
“This will not just weaken / put in question India’s security apparatus in the long run, but also shift the blame away from the religious cohort, that is responsible for all the bloodshed,” said Malviya in a post on X.
BJP Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut also criticises web series creators of manipulating historical events.
“Law of the land is that one can show unimaginable amount of violence and nudity on OTT platforms without any consequence or censorship, one can even distort real life events to suit their politically motivated sinister motives, there is all the freedom for communists or leftists across the world for such anti national expressions but as a nationalist no OTT platform allows us to make films that revolves around the integrity and unity of Bharat, it seems censorship is only for some of us who don’t want tukde of this nation and make films on historic facts,” Kangana said in a post on X.
Meanwhile, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said that he find it amusing to see people who accepted movies like ‘Kashmir Files’ as the absolute truth now demanding accuracy in the depiction of the IC814 events.
The series is based on the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 that took place on December 24, 1999, after the plane departed from Kathmandu, Nepal, which ended with the release of three terrorists – Masood Azhar, Omar Sheikh, and Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar – in exchange for approximately 150 hostages.