The
youth wing of the Samajwadi Party's Maharashtra unit Saturday protested
against filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma, who is shooting a movie based on the
26/11 Mumbai terror attack.
Nearly 200 Samajwadi Youth
Party (SYP) activists led by their president Abu Farhan Azmi shouted
slogans and waved black flags near Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel
which was the main centre of 2008 Mumbai terror attack.
"When
we asked the local police how the movie was being shot on actual
locales on Mumbai streets in the wee hours today (Saturday), we were
informed that no permissions have been given to Verma to shoot
anywhere," Azmi told.
Accusing Ram Gopal Verma of going
back on his four-year old promise of not making a movie on the terror
attacks, Azmi said that now former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is
no more, the director has decided to make money out the sorrows of
hundreds of victims and martyrs of the terror attacks.
"We
have demanded that (Ram Gopal) Verma must not shoot anywhere on actual
locales of the terror attacks and mock the Mumbaikars, he can shoot in
studios if he is so keen on the movie," Azmi added.
The
SYP has also demanded that since he has failed to keep his word to the
late Deshmukh about "never making a movie" on the terror attacks, he
must make a commitment to donate all the profits of the movie to the
victims and survivors of the terror incident.
"We also
want that he may make and release his movie only after the sole
surviving terrorist, Ajmal Kasab is hanged. Nobody should be allowed to
glorify a terrorist or terror acts by immortalising them on film," Azmi
said, threatening to intensify the party's agitation.
Incidentally,
Ram Gopal Verma had shot to the headlines when he visited the
terror-ravaged Taj hotel a couple of days after the attacks. But, at
that time, he scotched all speculation and said he would never make a
movie on the terror attacks theme.
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