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Indu Sarkar's Press Meet Cancelled After Ruckus by Congress Activists

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Bhandarkar shared a video snippet in which a group of people could be seen protesting outside the hotel and chanting slogans.

Pune: Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar had to cancel the press conference of his upcoming film Indu Sarkar in Pune after a group of Congress activists barged into the lobby of the hotel and staged a protest.

Bhandarkar took to Twitter to share photographs from the venue and mentioned how his team members are stranded like hostages in the hotel room.

"Congress workers hv barged in the Hotel lobby & created ruckus,me & team are stranded like hostages in hotel room. #pune activity cancelled," he wrote.

Congress workers hv barged in the Hotel lobby & created ruckus,me & team are stranded like hostages in hotel room. #pune activity cancelled. pic.twitter.com/6GHX1VHGD8— Madhur Bhandarkar (@imbhandarkar) July 15, 2017

He also shared a video snippet in which a group of people could be seen protesting outside the hotel and chanting several slogans. "It's baffling to see self-proclaimed custodians of #freedomOfExpression creating huge ruckus to prevent a legitimate release of #InduSarkar," he wrote alongside the video.

Its baffling to see self proclaimed custodians of #freedomOfExpression creating huge ruckus to prevent a legitimate release of #InduSarkar pic.twitter.com/orJVVJULdp— Madhur Bhandarkar (@imbhandarkar) July 15, 2017

In an interaction with CNN-News18, Bhandarkar expressed that they felt scared and clarified that his film Indu Sarkar is 70 percent fiction and 30 percent real.

"We felt scared, we obviously will, if someone will try to hit us with a bottle," he said.

"The film is 70% fiction and 30% real. We have already got 16 cuts from the censor board," he added.

He also added that people should look at a situation in its entirety. "People are reacting on a 3-minute trailer, they should look at it in totality."

The film is based on the Emergency and stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, Kirti Kulhari, Supriya Vinod, Anupam Kher and Tota Roy Chowdhury. The Emergency was imposed in 1975, when Indira Gandhi cited grave threat to her government and sovereignty of the country from both internal and external forces.

Indu Sarkar has drawn the ire of the Congress party even before its release and many The Congress also said that the reaction to Bhandarkar's inevitable because there is an apprehension that the film is a distortion of facts.