PIL against Netaji film rejected 14th May 2005
10.05 IST
By Agencies
The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking deletion of the word 'Forgotten' and the romance and marriage sequences in the film 'Bose, the Forgotten Hero', directed by Shyam Benegal .
Rejecting the petition filed by six deponents before the Mukherjee Commission of inquiry into disappearance of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice V S Sirpurkar and Justice Ashok Ganguly observed that there was, prima facie, no merit in the petition.
The Bench observed that the film was not made to denigrate the image of Netaji and also did not have the capacity to do so.
The court was of the view that the image of Netaji was so great and large that it could not be denigrated by a film or a scene therein.
The PIL, filed a few hours before the film's premiere, claimed that Netaji was in the hearts of all Indians and to say that he was 'forgotten', was grossly untrue.
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PIL against Netaji film rejected
