"The matter has already been taken up officially with the Indian authorities and strong protest has been conveyed to the Indian side," the statement said. The Foreign Ministry took the initiative after its attention was drawn to media reports and the reaction of people, particularly on social networking sites, to the contents of the film.
The Ministry and the Bangladeshi High Commission in New Delhi are working to ascertain the veracity of "derogatory remarks and distortion" of historical facts in the film. The development came as Bangladeshi people reacted to the film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar after it was noticed that it "misrepresented" the birth of the country as a result of an India-Pakistan war, and undermined the armed resistance by Bangladeshi freedom fighters.
