Family members of renowned film director, Ritwik Ghatak, have condemned and objected to the Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha using scenes from his films in a video that is now being circulated by the party’s youth wing. The five-minute video is about the party’s stand on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
\nThis is the full text of the objection issued by the late film director’s family members:<\/p>\n
We, the undersigned, family members of the late Shri Ritwik Kumar Ghatak, strongly condemn the misappropriation and misuse of his politics and his cinema by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha to defend the controversial and discriminatory National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizens Amendment Act (CAA).
\nShri Ghatak’s cinema reflected his deep empathy for the underprivileged – in particular, the displaced and marginalized victims of political and social upheavals. He was secular to the bone, as everyone who knew him can attest, and his writings and cinema are proof of this.
\nTo use any part of his filmography – divorced from context – to justify laws that will make every citizen of the country pass through an ordeal to re-establish their citizenship and might render millions from one particular community, Muslims, stateless is deemed unacceptable by us. It violates the fundamental principles he stood for.
\nWe demand the material spreading disinformation be repealed with urgent and immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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