Congress President Rahul Gandhi has broken his silence on the Sacred Games controversy. A Congress worker from Bengal filed police complaint against Sacred Games maker for allegedly insulting late PM Rajiv Gandhi. Similarly, a plea in Delhi HC against Netflix's show was filed by a Delhi lawyer. BJP leader Amit Malviya too mocked Rahul Gandhi by tweeting clips from Sacred Games with uncharitable mention of slain PM. All these lead to the question about Congress party's official stand regarding Sacred Games. Many wanted Congress President to come out with a public stance regarding this controversy.
And, Rahul Gandhi has done precisely that. Taking to Twitter, Congress President said, " BJP/RSS believe the freedom of expression must be policed & controlled. I believe this freedom is a fundamental democratic right. My father lived and died in the service of India. The views of a character on a fictional web series can never change that." He made it clear that Congress believes in freedom of speech and they don't condone the complaints against it, without explicitly referring to the cases.
Sacred Games, the critically-acclaimed web series by Netflix, has run into trouble with a Congress supporter filing a police complaint against its makers for insulting late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. One Rajeev Sinha has filed a complaint against Netflix, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and producers of Sacred Games at Kolkata’s Girish Park Police Station for ‘abusing’ Rajiv Gandhi.
The complaint says that Sacred Games has a scene in which the protagonist of the serial (Siddiqui) is seen ‘abusing our late Prime Minister and misrepresenting the facts during his period. The complaints also says that ‘along with this the serial also crosses all limits of decency and has taken Indian Film Industry to a new low.’
The web series is based on the novel, written by Vikram Chandra. It's the story of Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) and Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) who are connected by one person -- Sartaj's father Dilbagh Singh.
Sartaj is a seasoned and cynical Mumbai Police officer who cannot lie. All he wants is to be a good police officer. He gets an anonymous tip one night that promises a breakthrough in the decades-old underworld activities in the maximum city. The voice is of Gaitonde, a criminal mastermind who rose to become one the most wanted names in the city, with connections to ISI and other terrorist organisation. Gaitonde warns Sartaj of a danger that is looming on the city's horizon and will destroy everything in the next 25 days. The countdown begins as we get to see events unfold from the perspectives of the two men running the show.
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