Raazi did India dirty: Calling Sehmat author Harinder Sikka
India, April 1 -- Continued from p01
Harinder says that the changes done from the book for Raazi "undid" his hard work. "Meghna changed the story and then got her father to write the song Ae Watan Mere Watan. There is not a word about Bharat in it. It was cleverly worded and presented. It took me eight years to write the book, and with one film, the hard work was undone," he says, adding that while the film was a commercial success, he knew that it won't win any National Film Award: "It isn't worthy of that. The film did India dirty."
The author adds that he also didn't agree to the film's title change from Sehmat to Raazi. "Meghna didn't want to acknowledge Sehmat for who she was. I was taken for a ride," he says, claiming that Gulzar also got him excluded from speaking at an event: "I have a letter by the Jaipur Literature Festival team, that says Mr Gulzar pushed them to not let me speak at their event. When I questioned him, he said it was a typo."
Sikka expresses disappointment as he feels that films like Raazi are made to show that "the tricolour need not be celebrated". "Even though that is what our martyrs come home wrapped in," he ends....
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