Netflix mentioned on Tuesday it should add new disclaimers to an Indian sequence a couple of aircraft hijack after social media outrage and authorities anger over what they mentioned was Muslim hijackers being proven as Hindus.
The sequence, known 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 fallacious portrayal of the hijackers as Hindus with Hindu names once they had been Muslims.
Netflix officers had been summoned to India’s info and broadcasting ministry on Tuesday, native media reported, and the streaming platform mentioned quickly after that it’ll replace the disclaimer. There was no remark from the federal government.
“For the advantage of 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 an announcement.
#BoycottNetflix was trending on X over the weekend, and several other customers in addition to members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) criticised the sequence, saying it confirmed the hijackers in a constructive gentle and misled audiences into considering they had been Hindu.
Amit Malviya, who heads BJP’s social media unit, mentioned the sequence “legitimised the legal intent” of the hijackers and misled individuals into considering that Hindus hijacked the aircraft.
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 practically 25 years after the incident, has actors Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Varma and Pankaj Kapur, amongst others, and relies on the e book “Flight into Concern”, 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 previously, particularly from Hindu teams, who say their content material hurts the emotions of the nation’s majority spiritual inhabitants.
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