The police disrupted the screening of a film on Kashmir Jashn-e-Azadi directed by Sanjay Kak in Mumbai. Here is the news.
The 2-hour, 18-minute long documentary, directed bySanjay Kak, was just about to begin when cops barged into the Bhupesh Gupta Bhavan at Prabhadevi and seized all the dvds.
“We were told that the documentary is provocative and inflammatory. Therefore we requested the organisers to let us watch the movie before it was screened”, Deputy Commissioner of Police, D N Phadtare, told Mumbai Mirror. But getting the cops to play censor was not acceptable to the show’s organisers, Vikalp. “We told them in that case it would not be possible to allow them to screen the film and confiscated the DVDs,” said Phadtare.
When contacted director Sanjay Kak said: “I’ve been holding a number of private screenings across the country for filmmakers and other interested viewers to start a conversation about the film and get feedback. The Osian film festival in Delhi was the first and only public screening we’ve had. The screening today was in a private property for a small group of invitees. Vikalp got a call in the morning from the police asking for a copy of the film. When we landed at the venue there was a battalion of cops and they asked us not to screen the film. When we told them to watch it with us they were not willing,” said Kak, adding that the cops refused to tell them who had filed the complaint or what the problem was. “All they were willing to say was, ‘hamare seniors ka order hai,’ and till they had seen the film they could not allow us to go ahead,” he said.
its a shameful act by the bombay police that i join you guys in condemning.
as a lawyer, i feel the rights issues this film and the disruption of its screening in bombay raises are of great significance.
further, this might be the right opportunity for bombay to take on the bombay police act.
It is welcome act by the vigilant citizens and the Mumbai Police. This so called documentary by director Sanjay Kak is full of lies and makes hero of a terrorist and mass murderer Yasin Malik, who is also the chairman of terrorist outfit Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).
Sanjay Kak’s Jashn-e-aazadi (unwanted freedom) is a clear propaganda for these terrorists and has been made to impress a certain lobby.
Its sad that Sanjay Kak has tried to play with the emotions of the people who have lost their homeland. He has forgotten those thousands who got killed by the bullets of these terrorists on whom he has made this film.
All the screenings of this movie till now have been public and has seen a lot of protests and criticism from the common Kashmiri’s.
This movie needs to be banned all across the Indian state for all the anti-national content and misinformation it is spreading among the common masses. Even Sanjay Kak needs to be booked for this criminal act.
Why should the film be banned even if all these objections to the film are true? I am sure there are many films out there which portray the other point of view and if those films have the right to be seen so does this film. I haven’t seen the film so cannot comment on it but I find the idea of banning very silly.