With Congress protests escalating over Indu Sarkar , filmmaker gets police protection
Madhur Bhandarkar's film Indu Sarkar has been facing the wrath of Congress Party ever since the trailer is out. And now the filmmaker has been given police protection amidst protests escalating against his film.
Two policemen have been assigned to protect him during and two will be at duty in the night as well. Local Congress workers halted the promotions of the film in Nagpur and Mumbai, and that's then the filmmaker raised an alarm. "Can't I make a film?" asked filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, who is extremely disappointed after the Congress workers created ruckus and forced him to cancel the press conference of his upcoming controversial film Indu Sarkar, on Sunday.
Bhandarkar, through his tweets, recently called upon Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi seeking his intervention into the matter. Addressing the media, the 48-year-old said, "Since his party workers are protesting against the film, that's why I have just made an appeal to Rahul Gandhi. It's my duty to ask him till when is this going to happen? When will this end?"
He further said, "The Congress people should condemn the protests and ask the protestors to not do such things. People write books, make documentaries, can't I make a film? You are reacting on a three-minute long trailer when I have already made this clear that the film is 70 percent fictional."
Bhandarkar also informed that the team has cancelled the Ahmedabad and Bengaluru round of promotion. "Me and my actors are frightened, we are being threatened. We have cancelled the promotions in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad because they have been threatening us, saying wherever we go, they will protest. You are scared of a film, what is this?"
"This is neither a person's film nor a docu-drama. If my intention was to base it on a person, why would I make a film that is 70 percent fictional? I would have made a documentary, not a film. People should see it from a broader perspective. These protests are extremely unfair," he concluded.
The controversial movie Indu Sarkar is based on the Emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The Congress has objected to the film, saying that it may have portrayed Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi in bad light. The film is set for a release on July 28
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