Bastar The Naxal Story: Adah Sharma Opens Up About JNU Remark In Upcoming Film

The film Bastar: The Naxal Story, starring Adah Sharma, is set to release on March 15. A group of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students demonstrated against the movie's teaser earlier this year, calling for "action" against the cast and producers.?

Adah has now spoken out about the issue over her anti-JNU comment in the teaser in an interview with News18.

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Adah Sharma said, “When you play a tough cop like Neeraj Mathur in Bastar, I want people to think that I portrayed her in the strongest, most fearless and powerful way. I want people to believe each word I’m saying in the film. When she says that 76 jawans were butchered and that she wants to gun them down, she’s saying it out of frustration because she saw the jawans being shot and chopped into pieces. I might not say it as Adah but Neerja would.”

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She also went on to add,? “Once people watch the film, they’ll understand what it’s about. But like I said even during The Kerala Story, it’s a democracy – people can choose to watch a film or not, they can comment after watching a film or not. And we should also be respecting those who are making comments without watching the film because that’s their choice."

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Bastar The Naxal Story Controversy

Adah Sharma, who plays a police officer in Bastar: The Naxal Story, demands that "left-leaning pseudo intellectuals" from large cities who "side with Naxals" be executed in public. She cites JNU as the location of a scenario in which students are said to have rejoiced over the murder of CRPF officers in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, by Naxals. In February, JNU students condemned the director for "spreading dangerous propaganda and inciting violence" after they set fire to the movie's posters as a protest.

“We demand immediate action against Sudipto Sen, Adah Sharma, and Vipul Amrutlal Shah for the open call for genocide of JNU students. Such a step to mislead people is a criminal act. All legal steps will be taken and we appeal to our alumni and V-C to take urgent action,” said JNU Students Union president Aishe Ghosh on X

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