This occurs just hours after the Information and Broadcasting Ministry called Netflix India’s chief content officer Monika Shergill because to the controversy over “IC 814.” Government sources informed NDTV that the government is taking the controversy over the Netflix webseries “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack” very seriously and that “nobody has the right to play with the sentiments of people of this country” to heart.
“No one is entitled to manipulate the feelings of this country’s citizens. India’s civilization and culture must always be cherished. You should pause before incorrectly depicting anything. A very important source stated, “The government is treating it with great seriousness.
This occurs just hours after the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry called Netflix India’s content chief Monika Shergill due to a dispute over a webseries that depicted the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight by the terrorist group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, which is located in Pakistan.
Hundreds of social media users have claimed that the web series’ writers changed the hijackers’ names to “Bhola” and “Shankar” on purpose. Inspired on the book ‘aircraft Into Fear: The pilot’s Story’ written by writer Srinjoy Chowdhury and aircraft pilot Devi Sharan, the series was developed by Anubhav Sinha and Trishant Srivastava. Key parts are played by Pankaj Kapur, Vijay Varma, and Naseeruddin Shah.
The December 24, 1999, hijacking of Indian Airlines flight 814 was documented in the online series. The aircraft, carrying 191 pilots, departed from Kathmandu, Nepal, and was bound for Delhi. Five hijackers, masquerading as passengers, took over the aircraft shortly after takeoff. Later, it touched down multiple times in Amritsar, Lahore, and Dubai before being transported to Afghanistan.
Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim, and Shakir were identified as the hijackers in a statement released by the Union Home Ministry on January 6, 2000. “To the passengers of the hijacked place these hijackers came to be known respectively as (1) Chief, (2) Doctor, (3) Burger, (4) Bhola and (5) Shankar, the names by which the hijackers invariably addressed one another,” according to a statement from the Home Ministry.
Amidst the debate, a number of journalists who covered the week-long 1999 hijacking have shared on social media that passengers told them the hijackers addressed each other by these names.
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