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It isn't just about the names of the five IC 814 hijackers, passengers of that flight, and experts have called out the series for several inconsistencies, including the role of ISI, RAW intel, and the portrayal of the hijackers...
From the intelligence from RAW, India's external intelligence agency, reaching Delhi, to the role of Pakistan's notorious spy agency ISI; from humanising the terrorists to downplaying the terror among the passengers, Sinha's series is facing questions on several fronts from people who were an important part of the 1999 IC 814 hostage crisis...
Anubhav Sinha's series shows intelligence from the Kathmandu RAW team on a possible hijacking of an Indian aircraft reaching the agency's headquarters in Delhi...
"The Netflix series hasn't portrayed the tension in the cabin well," he said.. Ipseeta Menon, one of the passengers on IC 814, told India Today Digital that the "passengers' perspective hasn't been shown well..
Though a massive controversy started over Anubhav Sinha's Netflix series trying to conceal the real identity of the hijackers, it wasn't the only example of IC 814 - The Kandahar Hijack flying far off from the facts...
