People also organised an online campaign and sent petitions to the film's producer. According to protesters, the film does not address the eight months of fighting by freedom fighters with Indian support against Pakistani troops during the Liberation War, when some three million people were killed.
The protests prompted the production company, Yash Raj Films, to apologise in a statement on its blog last week for "any disrespect or hurt" the film has caused Bangladeshis. "This was and is meant to be a fictional work and does not in any way project or disrespect any particular segment of society or persons or a nation," the statement said.
