Video streaming platform Zee5 has faced major backlash after their new series Abhay 2 featured the photo of legendary freedom fighter Khudiram Bose on a criminal board. This series stars Kunal Khemu, and the sketch of Khudiram Bose had been placed next to criminals during one of the scenes shot inside a police station.
Netizens were quick to blast the makers of the web series for disrespecting the revolutionary figure Khudiram Bose as they portrayed him as a criminal. In the second episode of the newly released season, the social media users have alleged that the picture of the freedom fighter was seen alongside photographs of other criminals in a police station.
Zee5 immediately apologised for the blunder and wrote on Twitter, “The producers, show & the platform, have no intent whatsoever to offend any community or hurt anybody’s sentiments. Keeping in mind the feedback received and with utmost respect to our audience, we have blurred the image (inadvertently) used in one of the scenes of Abhay2.”
Khudiram Bose was a revolutionary Bengali freedom fighter who faced the gallows at 18 years of age for bombing the carriage of a British General and his family. He was one of the youngest martyrs of the Indian Independence Movement.