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Dhaka: Bangladesh protested on Sunday to India about the "distortion" of historical facts regarding the 1971 Liberation War in the new Indian film "Gunday" and requested authorities to stop its screening. "The government of Bangladesh has also expressed its deep sense of hurt and disappointment about clearing of the film by the Central Board of Film Certification, Government of India," a foreign office statement said. Bangladesh's foreign ministry requested Indian authorities to stop the screening of "Gunday" in its present form with immediate effect. "The matter has already been taken up officially with the Indian authorities and strong protest has been conveyed to the Indian side," the statement said. The foreign ministry took the initiative after its attention was drawn to media reports and the reaction of people, particularly on social networking sites, to the contents of the film. The ministry and the Bangladeshi high commission in New Delhi are working to ascertain the veracity of "derogatory remarks and distortion" of historical facts in the film. The development came as Bangladeshi people reacted to the film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar after it was noticed that it "misrepresented" the birth of the country as a result of an India-Pakistan war, and undermined the armed resistance by Bangladeshi freedom fighters. The film, released on February 14, mentions in an opening narration that "Bangladesh is born as Pakistan surrenders on December 16 at the end of the India-Pakistan war". According to viewers, the film apparently indicated that Bangladeshis were involved in crimes like arms smuggling while there were insinuations that they preferred identifying themselves as Indians. The issue was in focus on social networks with Bangladeshis, mostly youths, expressing their annoyance and condemnation for the film's contents. People also organised an online campaign and sent petitions to the film's producer. According to protesters, the film does not address the eight months of fighting by freedom fighters with Indian support against Pakistani troops during the Liberation War, when some three million people were killed. The protests prompted the production company, Yash Raj Films, to apologise in a statement on its blog last week for "any disrespect or hurt" the film has caused Bangladeshis. "This was and is meant to be a fictional work and does not in any way project or disrespect any particular segment of society or persons or a nation," the statement said.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/bangladesh-protests-against-distortions-in-movie-gunday-487192 :hysterical: Do these people realize that 'Gunday' is a fictional, masala Bollywood movie and no way represents reality or attempting to portray history in an accurate manner ? Why are these people getting so worked up over nothing ? They have also mass voted Gunday down to the worst movie of all time on IMDb. :hysterical: It has 37,000 votes on that site and its rating is 1.2 and No.1 on Bottom 100. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2574698/
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Isn't it true that India liberated Bangladesh? Whereas Bangladeshis got murdered by Pakistani army?
Yes.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was the direct military conflict between India and Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Indian, Bangladeshi and international sources consider the beginning of the war to have been Operation Chengiz Khan, when Pakistan launched pre-emptive air strikes on 11 Indian airbases on 3 December 1971, leading to India's entry into the war of independence in East Pakistan on the side of Bangladeshi nationalist forces, and the commencement of hostilities with West Pakistan.[19][20] Lasting just 13 days, it is considered to be one of the shortest wars in history.[21][22] During the course of the war, Indian and Pakistani forces clashed on the eastern and western fronts. The war effectively came to an end after the Eastern Command of the Pakistani Armed Forces signed the Instrument of Surrender,[23] on 16 December 1971 in Dhaka, marking the liberation of the new nation of Bangladesh. East Pakistan had officially seceded from Pakistan on 26 March 1971. Between 90,000 and 93,000 members of the Pakistan Armed Forces including paramilitary personnel were taken as Prisoners of War by the Indian Army.[24][25] It is estimated that between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 civilians were killed in Bangladesh, and up to four hundred thousand women raped by the Pakistani armed forces,[26] especially Bengali Hindus.[27][28] As a result of the conflict, a further eight to ten million people fled the country at the time to seek refuge in neighbouring India.[29]
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Isn't it true that India liberated Bangladesh? Whereas Bangladeshis got murdered by Pakistani army?
It's something else entirely to imply that they didn't do anything. There are people in India who take any affront to themselves seriously when it's done by the West. Shivji ka bikini bottoms, anything to do with Gandhi, being profiled by the TSA blah blah.
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Do they take offense to being called bangbros on indian and pakistani websites? I hope they know it 's the name of a famous porn production house. I have never seen anybody objecting to that. :haha:

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