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A legal notice has been served to ban the screening of 'Mujib: The Making of a Nation', the biopic of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
BNP's legal affairs secretary and secretary general of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum (BJAF) Barrister Kaiser Kamal sent the notice on Thursday (19 October) claiming that two scenes of the film presented distorted and defamatory information about former president Major General Ziaur Rahman.
Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Bangladesh Film Exhibitors Association, the film's producer Shyam Benegal, and seven others have been made respondents.
The respondents have been asked to omit the aforementioned parts from the film and seek an apology before the nation.
Failure to do so will result in legal action against them, the notice reads.
Regarding the notice, Barrister Kaiser Kamal said, "There is distorted and defamatory information about former president Major General Ziaur Rahman in two scenes of the film, which humiliates Ziaur Rahman and his family in front of the society."
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