Netflix’s Sacred Games Runs Into Trouble For ‘Abusing’ Rajiv Gandhi; WB Congress Leader Files Complaint

Content streaming portal Netflix’s Indian series, ‘Sacred Games’ has run into trouble.

West Bengal Congress leader, Rajiv Sinha, has filed a complaint with the Kolkata police accusing the show’s producers and actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui for insulting late Congress leader and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, The New Indian Express has reported.

Playing the role of a gangster, Siddiqui "abused our late Prime Minister (PM) Rajiv Gandhi calling him fattu, which translated as pu*** in the subtitle", the Congress leader’s complaint to the police reads. He further accused the show of having "misrepresenting facts during his (Rajiv’s) regime."

In the show, Rajiv is accused of having a hand in the Bofors scandal and of mixing religion with politics through the Shah Bano case. The Rajiv Gandhi government had overturned a Supreme Court judgement allegedly to appease the Muslim orthodoxy in an election year.

The show goes on to say that former PM instituted the TV show Ramayan to appease the Hindus who felt that Rajiv Gandhi’s government was unjust to Shah Bano. The show is directed by directors Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane and is based on the novel by Vikram Chandra that goes by the same name.