‘Censorship only for …’: Kangana Ranaut reacts to Netflix series ‘IC 814’ row | India News

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Kangana Ranaut on Monday expressed her discontent with the OTT series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack,’ accusing its creators of manipulating historical events to align with their political agendas.
The Mandi MP criticized the alleged freedom granted to OTT platforms to showcase violence and nudity without repercussions or censorship, while films with nationalistic themes face scrutiny from the censor board.Kangana’s remarks come at a time when the release of her film ‘Emergency’ which is also directed by her, has been postponed.
“Law of the land is that one can show unimaginable amount of violence and nudity on OTT platforms without any consequence or censorship, one can even distort real life events to suit their politically motivated sinister motives, there is all the freedom for communists or leftists across the world for such anti national expressions but as a nationalist no OTT platform allows us to make films that revolves around the integrity and unity of Bharat, it seems censorship is only for some of us who don’t want tukde of this nation and make films on historic facts,” Kangana said in a post on X.

“It’s hugely demotivating and unjust,” she added.
The film, where Kangana is playing the role of ex-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was originally scheduled to be released in theaters on September 6. However, it is currently awaiting approval from the CBFC (Central Board Of Film Certification), which has proposed several cuts due to the sensitive nature of the movie’s subject matter.
The series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack,’ created by Anubhav Sinha, has been accused of allegedly shifting the blame away from the Pakistani terrorists involved in the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight. The Bharatiya Janata Party has also accused the series of validating the criminal intentions of the terrorists by using their non-Muslim aliases.
BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya expressed his concerns on X, stating, “The hijackers of IC-814 were dreaded terrorists, who acquired aliases to hide their Muslim identities. Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha, legitimised their criminal intent, by furthering their non-Muslim names. Result? Decades later, people will think Hindus hijacked IC-814.”
The series, directed by Sinha, is based on the 1999 hijacking of an Indian aircraft that took place on December 24, 1999, after the plane departed from Kathmandu, Nepal. The crisis concluded with the release of three terrorists – Masood Azhar, Omar Sheikh, and Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar – in exchange for approximately 150 hostages. The series was released on Netflix on August 29.