Mumbai: Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha’s IC 814: Kandahar Hijack launched this weekend and confronted criticism on social media. The sequence depicts the heartbreaking occasions of the hijacking of an Indian Airways airplane by terrorists in 1999. Critics praised the performances of the actors within the sequence however on the identical time many netizens have accused the sequence of ‘whitewashing’ the occasions. They turned offended about some info proven within the sequence.

Why did the demand to boycott the sequence come up?

Truly the names of the terrorists have been tampered with within the sequence. Netizens are offended as a result of their names had been allegedly Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Saeed, Sunny, Ahmed Qazi, Zahoor Mistry and Shakir. On the identical time, the names of the terrorists within the sequence have been saved as Bhola, Shankar, Physician, Burger and Chief. It has been proven within the sequence that these had been the codenames of the terrorists. Many viewers bought offended about this and known as it unacceptable on social media. Some individuals took a screenshot of the names of terrorists on Google and shared it, writing – That is completely insupportable. You must change the names of terrorists to Indian names.