August 31, 2026 06:42 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
VHP breaks silence on Durga Puja ‘guidelines’: No blanket non-veg ban, clarifies stand on theme pandals amid backlash | No non-veg near pandals, no ‘distorted’ idols: VHP’s Durga Puja guidelines spark Bengal debate | ‘Either they will stay, or we will’: Suvendu Adhikari's warning to Jadavpur students over 'Azadi' slogans | 'Inaccurate reports': Penguin India denies dropping Sonia Gandhi memoir | ‘Clean my shoes’: Greater Noida woman detained after alleged abuse, assault of security guards | 21-year-old model stabbed to death in Delhi; gym trainer arrested after encounter | Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O'Brien, other TMC leaders booked after Camac Street clash with Kolkata Police | Kanpur plane crash: Training aircraft crashes near Ganges, two pilots killed | Big IT boost for Bengal: LTM opens global delivery & AI centre in Kolkata's New Town | 21-year-old Delhi model found stabbed at Delhi home, gym trainer accused of killing her

Kolkata: Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri faces protest in JU over his film screening

| | May 07, 2016, at 02:04 am
Kolkata, May 6 (IBNS) Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri ‏ said he was hurt and his car was damaged while he faced protests at the prestigious Jadavpur University campus here on Friday.

Agnihotri visited the campus for the screening of his upcoming movie 'Buddha in a Traffic Jam'.

"Mayhem at Jadavpur Univ due to a small film. Broke my shoulder. But screened the film. Victory of FoE," the filmmaker tweeted.

"Attack me. Break my car. How will you break my spirit? #BuddhaAtJU," he said.

Agnihotri earlier in the day tweeted images where his car was seen surrounded by protesters.

He tweeted: "Massive protest against me and the film. They are breaking the car apart. Help needed."

Vivek Agnihotri made his directorial debut with Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets and followed it with Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal and the erotic thriller Hate Story.

Buddha in a Traffic Jam, a new age political drama is his next scheduled release on May 13.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.