The college students’ association of the Film and Television Institute of India screened the controversial BBC documentary on the 2002 Godhra riots on the campus of the premier performing faculty right here, stated the coed physique on Saturday.
“On 26/01/23, we screened the banned BBC documentary ‘The Modi Question’ at FTII,” stated an announcement issued by the FTII Students’ Association.
The Centre had final week directed social media platforms Twitter and YouTube to dam hyperlinks to the documentary “India: The Modi Question”. The Ministry of External Affairs has trashed the documentary as a “propaganda piece” that lacks objectivity and displays a colonial mindset.
Throughout historical past, the association’s assertion stated, the banning of literature, music, and in latest instances, media, has been an indication of a crumbling society.
“The act of scrutiny needs to be welcomed by our elected representatives. Instead, they shortly tag it as false propaganda and attempt to shove it underneath the rug. They ought to know that the sure-fire means for one thing to be watched is to ban it.
“However, the BBC documentary barely scratches the floor of the sort of violence that has been perpetuated all through the nation for a devoted, singular, vicious goal. It could be startling to us if anybody in India was stunned by the happenings in this documentary,” stated the scholars’ association.
FTII Registrar Sayyid Rabeehashmi stated, “It is being reported {that a} group of scholars screened the documentary. The matter can be seemed into.”
Over the previous few days, college students at many instructional institutes, together with the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University and Ambedkar University in the nationwide capital, have tried to display the controversial BBC documentary.
In Kerala, the Congress screened the programme on Thursday.