IC-814 The Kandahar Hijack: The government has summoned the content head of OTT platform Netflix following a controversy over the portrayal of hijackers in the webseries ‘IC-814 The Kandahar Hijack’. Official sources said that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has summoned the content head of Netflix India on Tuesday and asked for clarification on the alleged controversial aspects of the webseries. The portrayal of the hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane flying from Kathmandu to Delhi has created controversy and many viewers have objected to it.

BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya said the IC-814 hijackers were dreaded terrorists who had adopted aliases to disguise their Muslim identity. “Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha has given legitimacy to their criminal intent by highlighting their non-Muslim names,” Malviya wrote on ‘X’. “After a few decades, people will think that Hindus had hijacked IC-814,” he said. “The leftist agenda of hiding the crimes of Pakistani terrorists, who were all Muslims, worked. This is the power of cinema, which the Communists have been using aggressively since the 70s, maybe even before that,” Malviya said.

He said, “This will not only weaken India’s security in the long term, but will also shift the blame from the religious groups who have been responsible for the bloodshed.” Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that it is really funny to see that people who believe films like ‘Kashmir Files’ to be true, get frustrated with the events of IC814 being shown in the Netflix show. He wrote on ‘X’, “Now suddenly they want the script to have details and reality.”