State Cong wants movie on Manmohan Singh banned

SHILLONG: Like in other parts of the country, the Meghalaya Congress too has objected to the public release of the movie, ‘The Accidental Prime Minister.’
The trailer of the film starring veteran Anupam Kher as the former prime minister, was launched recently and instantly caused a stir on social media. It showed scenes in which the soft-spoken former prime minister appeared to be under pressure from his party, especially then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and successor to the post, Rahul Gandhi.
Speaking on the matter, senior Congress leader from Meghalaya, Ampareen Lyngdoh said that it is a movie and characters are fictional,
“I haven’t seen the movie but I presume that since it has kicked up a controversy it should be banned,” she said. Lyngdoh maintained that movie makers cannot misuse the art form to malign reputation of respectable citizens of the country irrespective of their positions in society.
“This is a gross disrespect of ethical responsibility of film making and I object to its public release in the country,” she said.
It may be mentioned that the Congress party in Maharashtra earlier had written to the film’s producer demanding a special screening before the movie is released as well as “course correction” in case there was any distortion in the way events were depicted in the film.