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IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack gets embroiled in controversy over changing the religion of hijackers

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The recently released crime thriller drama television mini-series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack has caused an uproar on the Internet owing to its narrative and concealing of facts.
The series, directed by Anubhav Sinha, is based on the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814. Six terrorists- Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Sunny, Ahmad Qazi, Zahoor Mistry, and Shakir of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen terrorist outfit, held the flight hostage over their demands of the release of Pakistani terrorists held in prison in India – Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Masood Azhar and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar.
However, the streaming series is getting slammed on social media over the alleged whitewashing of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, for humanising the cruel terrorists and over its misleading content. Several users also alleged that the religion of the hijackers was deliberately changed by the makers.
One Internet user wrote on X, “Kandahar flight hijackers original names: Ibrahim Athar, Shahid Akhtar, Sunny Ahmed, Zahoor Mistry and Shakir. Anubhav Sinha hijacker web series IC 814 depicted as Bhola, Shankar. This is how whitewashing is done cinematically.”
Another wrote, “The hijackers of IC814 were lethal, cruel- to even attempt to show some of them as human in the Netflix series is unfair.”
However, as per the Ministry of External Affairs report dated January 2000, Chief, Doctor, Burger, Bhola, and Shankar, were the names by which the hijackers invariably addressed one another.
Journalist-writer-lyricist Neelesh Misra, who wrote the book 173 Hours in Captivity: The Hijacking of IC814, also took to his X, and wrote, “Shankar, Bhola, Burger, Doctor and the Chief, the brother of then-jailed Masood Azhar himself. All the hijackers assumed false names.
That is how they referred to each other and how the passengers referred to them throughout the hijacking. Regards, the author of the first book on the IC-814 hijacking.” (IANS)

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