Monika Shergill released a statement regarding controversy
On Tuesday, Monika Shergill, Vice President of Content at Netflix, released a statement regarding the controversy surrounding the web-series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’. She stated that the creators have formally added the actual identities of the terrorists in the show’s beginning disclaimer.
Other than the disclaimer, there are no additional edits made to the series.
Her full statement read, “For the benefit of audiences unfamiliar with the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814, the opening disclaimer has been updated to include the real and code names of the hijackers. The code names in the series reflect those used during the actual event (sic).”
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Directed by Anubhav Sinha, movie is based on 1999 hijacking
Filmed by Anubhav Sinha, ‘IC 814’ portrays the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in a dramatic way. Five hijackers took control of the plane departing from Tribhhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal and bound for Delhi.
The crisis went on for a week until the government, led by the BJP at the time, eventually gave in to the demands and freed three well-known terrorists.
A portion of the viewers criticized the creators for supposedly downplaying terrorism and upsetting the feelings of the Hindu group. According to a document released by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in the past, the five individuals responsible for hijacking the Indian Airlines flight IC 814 on December 24 were named as Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayeed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Zahoor Mistry, and Shakir.
The government also classified all of them as members of the Pakistan-based terrorist organization known as Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM).
