MSF takes legal action over Bollywood film
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INTERNATIONAL charity Medecins Sans Frontieres is taking legal action against the producers of a new Bollywood film, saying its misrepresentation of the medical group could put its aid workers deployed in conflict zones at risk.
Action-thriller “Phantom” was released yesterday and features British-Indian actress Katrina Kaif playing a role she described as an MSF aid worker who helps a disgraced Indian soldier, played by Saif Ali Khan, to assassinate Pakistani militants accused of being behind the 2008 Mumbai bombings.
In interviews this week, Kaif was quoted as saying, “NGO workers have ties with local fanatical groups” in war-torn regions, without mentioning that many aid groups maintain strict neutrality.
In the film’s trailer, her character is seen firing a pistol and rifle.
MSF said it had not been consulted over the content of the film and was not associated with it in any way. The humanitarian agency had “a strict no guns policy” in all its clinics and did not employ armed guards, it added.
“None of our staff would ever carry a gun. Any portrayal that suggests otherwise is dangerous, misleading and wrong,” MSF said.
“We have contacted the film’s production team and are taking legal action in order to correct this dangerous misrepresentation of our organization and its work.”
Director Kabir Khan and producers Sajid Nadiadwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur could not be reached for comment.
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