Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl: Karan Johar Faces Social Media Ire After IAF Writes To Censor Board Over Its ‘Negative Portrayal’ In Janhvi Kapoor Starrer

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, starring Janhvi Kapoor and Pankaj Tripathi in the lead roles was one of the most anticipated films of the year. The film, helmed by Sharan Sharma and produced by Dharma Productions finally released yesterday on Netflix. While the film received positive reviews overall, the Indian Air Force (IAF), in a letter addressed to the Central Board Of Film Certification (CBFC), expressed its displeasure over the negative portrayal in Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl.

The letter by IAF stated that while Karan Johar’s Dharma Production had agreed to represent Indian Air Force (IAF) with authenticity, certain scenes and dialogues were found to portray the IAF in an ‘undue negative light.’ In the letter, they addressed that Dharma Productions was informed about the objectionable portions, and were advised to delete them. However, the production house did not delete the scenes, and had proposed to insert a disclaimer in the film, claimed the letter.

While Karan Johar had earlier faced the heat by Netizens amid nepotism debate, KJo was once again slammed by Netizens after this letter by the IAF. Social media users started using certain hashtags and were furious about it. Check out some of the reactions below:

Karan Johar is mentor of Nepotism. His movie "Gunjan Saxena" is slammed by AIR FORCE.

Angry at Dharma Production, Indian Air Force has written to Censor Board complaining against its "undue negative portrayal" in movie “Gunjan Saxena."

BOYCOTT "Gunjan Saxena".
#SCForSSR
— Prashant Patel Umrao (@ippatel) August 13, 2020

Expecting patriotism/patriotic aspects from Bollywood movies is useless. What we can do to these anti-Bharat concept movies is boycotting them and asking others to boycott these movies.
Karan johar's Dharma productions official motto shall be "Adharma Always".@VyshRam pic.twitter.com/X3iyYJ6Nyl
— Bashetty Manish (@BashettyManish) August 13, 2020

These two Ekta Kapoor n Karan Johar have decided I guess to spoil d image of Indian defence system.

She is behind military family n he Air force.

Thy all need a very GOOD treatment from our military n judicial system..@rajnathsingh #Karan_Johar_Insults_IAF pic.twitter.com/ADMJswVO0H
— 🌼🌿 Nilam Dupade 🌿🌼 (@NilamDupade) August 13, 2020

The Senseless Films, Web Series are nothing but a conspiracy to misdirected our youth which is increasingly being viewed globally as our major national asset on a path of self-distruction.#Karan_Johar_Insults_IAF pic.twitter.com/gY6xvw0Loe @Ramesh_hjs @SG_HJS pic.twitter.com/L1teArK8nP
— Anilkumar Waghmore (@AnilkumarWaghm6) August 13, 2020

✊We will prefer to read the book on Gunjan Saxena except to watch @karanjohar Movie.
And we don't need to inspire from these Bollywood Mafia's movie who promote only Anti-national Activities also Hinduphobia

🙏Punish the guilty@rajnathsingh #Karan_Johar_Insults_IAF pic.twitter.com/scU9gwroY5
— Deepak Keshri (@Deepakkeshri86) August 13, 2020

Meanwhile, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl is based on the life story of Gunjan Saxena, who was the first woman combat aviator to fly into a war zone during the 1999 Kargil War. The film was lauded by many on social media, and especially loved Pankaj Tripathi’s performance in the film. ALSO READ: Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl Review: Netflix Scores A Big Winner With The Janhvi Kapoor Starrer; A Simply Told Story With Zero Frills

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Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl: Karan Johar Faces Social Media Ire After IAF Writes To Censor Board Over Its ‘Negative Portrayal’ In Janhvi Kapoor Starrer

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