The September 6 release date of Kangana Ranaut’s first solo film, Emergency, which is based on the life of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, has been rescheduled as the movie is stuck with CBFC (Central Board Of Film Certification).
Kangana Ranaut takes a dig at IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack amidst ‘Emergency’ release delay
According to reports, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has called Netflix India’s content head Monika Shergill to explain her response to claims that a new Netflix series fabricated details of the 1999 Indian Airlines hijacking to “whitewash” the terrorists’ crimes committed by Muslims terrorists.
This occurred one day after Amit Malviya, the head of the BJP’s IT cell, charged that IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack purposefully withheld the hijackers’ true identities to deceive viewers. Some others claimed that the series concealed the hijackers’ Muslim identity.
Kangana reacted to Amit Malviya’s tweet and expressed her disappointment with the delay her movie is facing because of CBFC.
Amit Malviya’s tweet on “IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack”
“The hijackers of IC-814 were dreaded terrorists, who acquired aliases to hide their Muslim identities. Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha, legitimised their criminal intent, by furthering their non-Muslim names. Result? Decades later, people will think Hindus hijacked IC-814. Left’s agenda to whitewash the crimes of Pakistani terrorists, all Muslims, served. This is the power of cinema, which the Communists have been using aggressively, since the 70s. Perhaps even earlier. 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.” Tweeted Amit Malviya.
“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 revolve 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. It’s hugely demotivating and unjust.” Kangana Ranaut wrote reacting to Amit Malviya’s tweet.