Netflix Bows to Government Pressure Over IC-814 Series
- Netflix has assured the Indian government that future content will align with national sentiments.
- This assurance follows controversy over the series IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack.
- Netflix's content head Monika Shergill met with Information and Broadcasting Ministry officials on September 3.
- The series, based on the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight, has sparked social media outrage over the portrayal of terrorists.
- The plea alleged that the mini-series erroneously shows the real hijackers as having Hindu names, including ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’, the other names of Lord Shiva, which hurt the sentiments of the Hindu community.
- A PIL has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a ban on the series for allegedly distorting facts and hurting Hindu sentiments.
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Take a 10-min AI interview to qualify for numerous real jobs auto-matched to your profile 🔑National Sentiment? WHAT THE FUCK. Buddy hold my beer. Taking a well known terrorist hijacking, they converted it into an entirely lopsided agenda, by omitting the most important detail and therefore historical context and distorting the facts to a level that actually makes no fucking sense except agenda-smearing an actual terrorism event.
What next? 26/11 was a Punjabi attack on Marathis? Parliament Attack was a disgruntled South Indian folks attacking the Indian Parliament?
I am appalled at how one has to resort to explaining something factual and defending simple facts in court because media discourse has chosen to take it for a spin and smear lies dresses up as a docu-series/series/movie/documentary. Let truth prevail. Who are you scared of, moviemakers or Netflix producers that you would need to, possibly, distort facts into a narrative?
can you share the actual facts ?