Netflix mentioned on Tuesday it would add new disclaimers to an Indian sequence a couple of airplane hijack after social media outrage and authorities anger over what they mentioned was Muslim hijackers being proven as Hindus.
The sequence, referred to as IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack, a fictionalised model of the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airways flight 814 from Kathmandu, was launched on Netflix final week. It was instantly criticised for what social media customers mentioned was a flawed portrayal of the hijackers as Hindus with Hindu names after they have been Muslims.
Netflix officers have been summoned to India’s info and broadcasting ministry on Tuesday, native media reported, and the streaming platform mentioned quickly after that it’s going to replace the disclaimer. There was no remark from the federal government.
“For the good thing about audiences unfamiliar with the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airways Flight 814, the opening disclaimer has been up to date to incorporate the true and code names of the hijackers,” Monika Shergill, Vice President, Content material, at Netflix India, mentioned in a press release.
#BoycottNetflix was trending on X over the weekend, and a number of other customers in addition to members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) criticised the sequence, saying it confirmed the hijackers in a optimistic gentle and misled audiences into considering they have been Hindu.
Amit Malviya, who heads BJP’s social media unit, mentioned the sequence “legitimised the prison intent” of the hijackers and misled folks into considering that Hindus hijacked the airplane.
India blames Pakistan and Pakistan-based militant teams for the December 1999 hijack, which was resolved after New Delhi freed three Islamist militants, together with Masood Azhar, the top of 1 such group.
The sequence, which comes almost 25 years after the incident, has actors Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma and Pankaj Kapur, amongst others, and is predicated on the ebook “Flight into Worry”, written by the captain of the flight Devi Sharan and journalist Srinjoy Chowdhury.
Netflix, in addition to different streamers akin to Amazon’s Prime Video, have been on the receiving finish of complaints over their content material prior to now, particularly from Hindu teams, who say their content material hurts the emotions of the nation’s majority spiritual inhabitants.
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