International charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is taking authorized action against the producers of recently released film Phantom, saying its misrepresentation of the medical group
Action-thriller film Phantom casts actress Katrina Kaif as an MSF aid worker who helps a soldier, played by actor Saif Ali Khan, to assassinate Pakistani militants blamed of being behind the 2008 Mumbai bombings.
In promotional interviews for the film, Katrina was quoted as saying, “NGO workers have ties with local fanatical groups” in war-torn regions, without mentioning that many aid groups maintain strict neutrality in order to do their work safely.
MSF said it had not been discussed over the content of the film and was not associated with it in any way.
“None of our staff would ever carry a gun. Any portrayal that suggests otherwise is dangerous, misleading and wrong,” MSF stated in a statement.
the film s production team has been contacted and are taking legal action in order to correct this dangerous misrepresentation of our organisation and its work
The film s director Kabir Khan and producers Sajid Nadiadwala and Siddharth Roy Kapur could not immediately be reached for statements.
Phantom was banned by a Pakistani court last week in response to a formal message filed by Hafiz Saeed, the man India blames of masterminding the killing of 166 people over three days in November 2008.
Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba which the United Nations has listed as a mafia organisation, said the film whose main villain is a man called “Hariz Saeed” maligns Pakistan and vilifies him.