Few Scenes In Netflix's Kandahar Web Series "Fictitious": Ex-Crew Member

IC-814 Kandhar Hijack Row: After the series was released, several social media users accused its creators -- Anubhav Sinha and Trishant Srivastava -- of changing the names of two hijackers to 'Bhola' and 'Shankar', thus hurting Hindu sentiments.

Amid the controversy surrounding the Netflix series 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack', which tells the story of the hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 by Pakistan-based terror outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in 1999, Anil Sharma, who was present in the hijacked Airbus aircraft as chief steward, and saw the series of events unfolding in front of his eyes, said on Tuesday that some of the scenes in the web series are fictitious.

After the series was released, several social media users accused its creators -- Anubhav Sinha and Trishant Srivastava -- of changing the names of two hijackers to 'Bhola' and 'Shankar', thus hurting Hindu sentiments.

Interacting with IANS about the controversy, Mr Sharma said the names -- Bhola and Shankar -- of two hijackers presented in the web series are 'imaginary', and not their real names.