Overview
- The FIR was registered on June 18 at Bidhannagar South police station under Sections 352, 353(1)(c) and 353(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- TMC leaders allege the film inaccurately renames Khudiram Bose as “Khudiram Singh” and Barindra Kumar Ghosh as “Birendra Kumar” from Amritsar.
- Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condemned the portrayal as a deliberate insult to Bengali revolutionaries and an attack on the state’s cultural heritage.
- BJP MPs countered that character name changes are common in cinema and dismissed the accusations as an overblown issue.
- Actors and social media users have amplified calls for the producers to clarify their historical research and for the censor board to explain its certification process.