New Delhi. The government has summoned the content head of OTT platform Netflix following a controversy over the portrayal of hijackers in the webseries ‘IC-814 The Kandahar Hijack’. Official sources said that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has summoned the content head of Netflix India on Tuesday and asked for clarification on the alleged controversial aspects of the webseries. The portrayal of the hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane flying from Kathmandu to Delhi has created controversy and many viewers have objected to it.
BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya said the IC-814 hijackers were dreaded terrorists who had adopted other names to disguise their Muslim identity. Malviya wrote on ‘X’, “Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha has legitimized their criminal intent by highlighting their non-Muslim names.” He said, “After a few decades, people will think that Hindus had hijacked IC-814.”
Malviya said, “The leftist agenda of hiding the crimes of Pakistani terrorists, who were all Muslims, worked. This is the power of cinema, which the Communists have been using aggressively since the 70s, maybe even before that.” He said, “This will not only weaken/question India’s security in the long run, but will also shift the blame from the religious groups who have been responsible for the bloodshed.” Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that it is really funny to see that people who believe films like ‘Kashmir Files’ to be true, get frustrated with the depiction of the events of IC814 in the Netflix show. He wrote on ‘X’, “Now suddenly they want the script to have nuance and reality.”