Netflix IC-814 Kandahar Hijack Internet Sequence, Bhola-Shankar Terrorist Names, Pooja Kataria Suvivor

New Delhi:

The brand new Netflix sequence ‘IC-814 Kandahar Hijack‘ – on the 1999 hijack of Indian Airways flight IC-814 by Pakistan-based terrorists – is “primarily based on an actual occasion and the names (of the hijackers, which has led to a row over historic accuracy) are factual”, Pooja Kataria, one in all 189 folks held hostage, has mentioned.

She referred to as on folks to view the present as leisure and never as controversy.

“I do not know why individuals are making an issue… that is primarily based on an actual occasion and the names have been additionally factual,” she informed information company ANI Wednesday, indicating she had been well-treated. “One hijacker, referred to as ‘burger’ celebrated my birthday and gifted me his scarf. One other, ‘physician’, used to present speeches on Islam we have been on the aircraft and gave the impression to be an clever particular person.”

“We have been getting back from Nepal when the aircraft was hijacked. There have been 176 passengers on the flight… there have been 5 hijackers. We have been all scared and did not have any thought of what was occurring. We got nothing to eat, besides a small apple,” Ms Kataria mentioned of a hostage state of affairs resolved after the then Indian authorities was pressured to change three terrorists.

#IC814 विमान पर सवार रहीं एक मुसाफ़िर पूजा कटारिया को ज़रूर सुनिए। सब कुछ साफ़ साफ़ बता रहीं है अपहरण के बाद विमान पर क्या क्या हुआ…

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Pooja Kataria’s remark follows a heated row over Netflix’s use of two terrorists’ code names – ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’. Critics have accused the OTT large of distorting info, misrepresenting the identities of the terrorists – named by the House Ministry in 2000 as Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim and Shakir – and offending Hindu sentiments.

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The ministry additionally famous that in the course of the hijacking the terrorists referred to as one another solely by code names, two of which have been ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’, and the others have been ‘chief’, ‘physician’, and ‘burger’.

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Nonetheless, because the row over the terrorists’ code and actual names gathered steam, the federal government summoned senior Netflix government Monika Shergill and informed “no person has the correct to play with folks’s sentiments”. The corporate later up to date the opening disclaimer to incorporate actual and code names.

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Ms Kataria is not the one ex-hostage to have spoken up on the sequence.

Anil Sharma, who was a steward on the flight, spoke to information company IANS, however he had a unique perspective, stating a few of the scenes within the net sequence are fictional and that the names ‘Bhola’ and ‘Shankar’ have been “imaginary… and never their (the terrorists’) actual names”.

“The intent of the makers of net sequence didn’t appear good to me,” he declared.

The Netflix present is impressed by occasions on board flight IC-814 and on floor in Kandahar and Delhi, in addition to the ebook ‘Flight Into Worry: The Captain’s Story’ by Devi Sharan, who was the aircraft’s captain.

It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapur in key roles.

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