New Delhi. The central government has summoned the content head of the OTT platform Netflix. This matter is related to the content of the web series ‘IC-814-The Kandahar Hijack’ aired on Netflix, based on the events related to the Kandahar plane hijack. The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has sought an answer from Netflix regarding the controversial aspects shown in this web series. On social media, people are demanding a ban on the series ‘IC-814-The Kandahar Hijack’.
Netflix Content Head has been summoned tomorrow by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting over the ‘IC814’ web series content row: Sources
— ANI (@ANI) September 2, 2024
The web series ‘IC-814-The Kandahar Hijack’, based on the incident of hijacking of Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu to New Delhi by Pakistan-based terrorist organization Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in 1999, was released on Netflix on 29 August. The controversy started with its release. Actually, the names of the plane hijackers have been changed in this series. They are being called by names like Bhola and Shankar. People got angry about this and accused the filmmaker Anubhav Sinha of doing this deliberately and demanded a ban on this web series. Now in this matter, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has sought a reply from the content head of Netflix.
BJP’s social media head Amit Malviya had raised the issue yesterday and said that the IC-814 hijackers were dreaded terrorists who had adopted aliases to hide their Muslim identity. Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha legitimized their criminal intent by putting forward their non-Muslim names. The result will be that decades later, people will think that Hindus had hijacked the IC-814 plane. The Left’s agenda of whitewashing the crimes of Pakistani terrorists who were all Muslims is complete. This is the power of cinema, which the Communists have been using aggressively since the 70s. This will not only weaken India’s security apparatus in the long run but will also put a question mark on it.
