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Exclusive! Meghna Gulzar wrote a nasty message to me after Raazi shoot: Harinder Sikka

Exclusive! Meghna Gulzar wrote a nasty message to me after Raazi shoot: Harinder Sikka

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Author Harinder Singh Sikka, whose espionage book Calling Sehmat was adapted into the 2018 film Raazi, insisted in a post on X on Saturday that choosing Meghna Gulzar to direct the film was his “gravest misjudgement”. Harinder Sikka, Alia Bhatt in Raazi Speaking to us, Sikka says he has been raising the issue for a while and is bringing it up again in light of the buzz around the spy franchise Dhurandhar. “I wasn’t willing to sell the rights of the book but agreed because of a promise to (poet-filmmaker and Meghna’s father) Gulzar,” he shares, adding, “My problem is that she removed the tricolour from the movie, while the Pakistani flag was flaunted. Even the Pakistani army was shown in a soft light. While in the book the protagonist was welcomed with (the Indian national anthem) Jana Gana Mana when she returned to India, all that was missing in the film. The climax was made to show that Sehmat made a mistake by fighting for India, which harmed the cause of Kashmiris.” Recalling his …

Harinder Sikka acquires film rights of Tarun Mehrishi’s debut novel

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Sikka and Mehrishi will now work together to finalise the script for the screen adaptation. HT Image Published by Penguin India, “The Portrait of a Secret” is the story of a patriot, who is faced with the impossible choice between self-preservation and duty. Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here Sikka said “The Portrait of a Secret” seamlessly blends fiction with reality and genuinely lives up to the word ‘unputdownable’. “The first time I read it, I could immediately see that the story held tremendous potential for screen and I am glad that we will be able to work together to mount the project at the scale that it deserves. Our authors deserve more than what they get today and this partnership will mark our first step in that direction,” he said. Protagonist Amitabh has spent a career battling India’s enemies, domestic and foreign and now, in the winter of his illustrious career, as India’s chief of intelligence, he is faced with his most daunting challenge yet …