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Netflix Bows to Government Pressure Over IC-814 Series

CosmicTaco · 2024-09-03T14:18:06.952069+05:30

- 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.

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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SnoozyWalrus

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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?

WigglyPenguin

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can you share the actual facts ?

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