After the complaint, Sanoj Mishra was called by the police for questioning. Sanoj Mishra says that without watching his film, an FIR has been registered against him only on the basis of the trailer. Now they can be put in jail and killed. Sanoj Mishra has also said that if he is handed over to the Bengal Police, it means his death. If anything happens to them, the movement should not stop.
Appealed on Facebook, expressed fear of murder
Sanoj Mishra has written a long post on his Facebook account, in which he has also appealed for help. Sanoj Mishra has said that he is being harassed just for speaking the truth. He has not committed any crime by making the film.
Read what Sanoj Mishra has written in the post:
Appeal….
Everyone has the right to speak their mind in independent India, but still the autocratic rulers and dictators still consider the country and the citizens of the country as their slaves. It was because of the freedom of expression that I left my home thirty years ago and came to the Mumbai film industry. Without seeing, without knowing the trailer of my film ‘The Diary of West Bengal’, an FIR has been registered against me in Bengal. I can be arrested and killed in jail. I have made only one film. I have not committed any crime, nor do I have a criminal record. I am being harassed for speaking the truth.
‘If something happens to me, the movement should not stop’
Sanoj Mishra has further written, ‘I am not under stress, but my family is living under a lot of pressure, because I am the only Shravan Kumar of my parents. I am the strength of my daughters, the trouble-shooter of any person in my village, the lifeline of my brothers. The mother has lost her eye after a heart attack. Even at this time, he did not know from where, after the serial of mother-in-law’s fight, it was heard that I am in trouble. Since then there is family pressure on me. But this is not a film, it is a movement and I hope that if anything happens to me, this movement should not stop.
‘Handing over to Bengal Police means my death’
Sanoj further writes, ‘We have to tell through public awareness that we are a living human being on earth, and the pain and suffering of people makes a difference to all of us. The time has come to get out of social media and Facebook and come face to face. Handing over to the Bengal Police means my death. I appeal to Respected Prime Minister Modi ji, Home Minister Amit Shah ji as well as Chief Minister of my state Shri Yogi Aditya Nath ji for proper and constitutional cooperation by taking this matter into cognizance… Mahadev.
Why the controversy over ‘The Diary of West Bengal’?
It is known that in the trailer of ‘The Diary of West Bengal’ it was claimed that there was a massacre of Hindus in Bengal, after which incidents of ‘mass rape’ started happening there. According to the trailer, the situation in Bengal was said to be worse than in Kashmir. For this reason, Hindus started migrating from Bengal. A woman was also shown in the trailer, whose getup is similar to that of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. There is a ruckus on this. Sanoj Mishra said that he is not against ‘Didi’ Mamta Banerjee, but against the system.