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Kolkata, A senior Trinamool Congress chief on Friday slammed these related to the West Bengal movie trade for not talking in opposition to a film allegedly exhibiting the state in poor gentle, although these personalities “get pleasure from shadow of energy” by sharing stage with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Kunal Ghosh, a former Rajya Sabha MP, was talking concerning the Hindi film ‘The Diary of West Bengal’ which hit the screens throughout the day. He didn’t identify the movie however shared its poster on X alongside together with his assertion.
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Thursday didn’t move any interim order on the discharge of the movie observing that in a democratic setup, wholesome criticisms shouldn’t be stopped. The court docket was listening to a PIL praying that the discharge of the film be restrained, claiming that it seeks to depict the chief minister of the state in poor gentle.
Within the put up, Ghosh stated, “What’s Tolly trade doing, particularly these producers, administrators, actors, who’re energetic in @AITCofficial, holding posts, having fun with shadow of energy, sharing phases with Didi, AB; what r are they doing to counter this sort of narratives?”
Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is affectionately known as ‘Didi’. By ‘AB’, Ghosh apparently meant celebration basic secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee, thought-about quantity two in TMC hierarchy.
Movie and tv stars are seen on phases at a number of political programmes of the TMC. The celebration has additionally fielded actors in meeting and Lok Sabha elections.
In one other put up, Ghosh stated, “A movie spreading hatred, toxicity, falsehood is being launched within the nation for political causes. We would like the stakeholders within the Bengali movie trade, notably these related to TMC, to voice their protests – in tweets, press meets and symbolic sit-ins.”
“Those that is not going to achieve this will probably be recognized as opportunists,” he stated.
The TMC chief’s outburst got here at a time when a piece of these related to the leisure trade are protesting the alleged rape and homicide of a health care provider contained in the state-run RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital in Kolkata three weeks in the past.
Responding to Ghosh’s feedback, movie and theatre persona Kaushik Sen stated the RG Kar hospital incident “shook each citizen of the state”.
“This isn’t a political protest and we hope he’ll respect it. Artists of Bengal had all the time come to the forefront of points confronting humanity. They by no means again out,” Sen stated.
Actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee claimed that Ghosh made an “irrelevant remark”.
Chatterjee stated Ghosh is mixing up two points – how movie personalities ought to protest in opposition to the R G Kar incident and the way they need to reply to the discharge of a movie.
“We had protested throughout the Nandigram motion in 2007 as we felt we should voice our anguish. We’ll all the time hold protesting on points which disturb us. Mr Kunal Ghosh ought to direct his question to these members of the movie fraternity who’re related together with his celebration,” he stated.
Actress and TMC MP Satabdi Roy stated, “Kunal Ghosh is true. We should converse out in opposition to efforts to tarnish the identify and picture of Bengal.”
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