Netflix India revises the opening disclaimer of the web series – IC-814 Kandahar Hijacking following the criticism it received from the viewers. Addressing a gathering, Monica Shergill, Vice President (India Content) of Netflix, said that the disclaimer now carries the name and vouches for the hijacker.
Shergill told that Netflix was ‘able to depict the reality’ and that ‘to assist those who do not recall the incidents of 1999, the opening disclaimer has been altered…Codenames used in the series are now quotes from the participants in the real events.’ The code name, ‘.
This particular web series is based on the 1999 hijacking of air india flight 814 enroute from kathmandu to delhi.
MIB submits notice to Netflix in connection with IC-814-Kandahar hijacking.
“IC-814-Kandahar hijacking”, a movie directed by Anubhav sinha. Disse is a mca of pssince ‘mountain warriors struggle to storyline in kashmir’. He has faced backlash recently for calling terrorists Bhola and Shankar. So, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, later on, called the content boss of Netflix upon the controversy and wanted to know the sensitive issues surrounding the OTT series.
On January 25, 2000, in a terrorist attack on Indian Airlines Flight IC-814, the daylight were made public with the hijacking by the Indian Airlines Flight: If occurred and name given to the five Accused: Ibrahim Attar. Sayyed Shahid Akhtar Saeed. Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistry Zahoor, Ibrahim and Shakir. So it was that the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the day of the hijacking all five passengers called each other by specific nicknames: “Bhola”, “Shankar”, “Sheikh”, “Doctor” and “Burger”, which were used in the airline hijacking.
Netflix series sparks controversy
The web series was subject to severe criticism in the public domain with Anubhav Sinha being charged with distortion of facts and provoking religion. New technologies and social networks are the tools to promote ideas as well as to protest against them. Many users on X used the words “#BoycottBollywood” and “#BoycottNETFLIX” trending on the Weibo platform.
One of the users was like “@anubhavsinha changed the names of IC814 hijackers to shankar & Bhola ‘this is how bollywood lets terrorists win’ #BoycottBollywood #IC814TheKandaharHijack”. Another one stated, “Names of ic 814 terrorist ‘ahmed omar saeed shaikh, masoud azhar and mushtaq ahmed zagar. In the movie – shankar and bhola! It’s all right to have people like @anubavsinha as long as we even have a terrorist like osama bin laden winning the noble peace prize.”
