By The South Asia Times 

DHAKA: The Indian intelligence agencies are working day & night to divert the growing hatred against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party in Bangladesh by producing yet another classic propaganda movie over the 1971 war.

Mujib —The Making Of a Nation — an upcoming film, co-produced by the National Film Development Corporation of the government of India and Bangladesh Film Development Corporation, is a failed attempt by India to gain public sympathy in Bangladesh and within India with the main purpose of diverting ongoing criticism against New Delhi’s Hindutva driven policies within India and its diminishing repute in Bangladesh.

Hatred against India and its ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is growing inside the Muslim nation due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s barbaric anti-Muslim policies in India.

BJP is a political wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Singh (RSS), a prominent Hindu supremacist and terrorist organization in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an active member of the RSS.

 
 Recently huge protest rallies were held across Bangladesh against growing violence and attacks on Mosques and Muslim communities in different states of India.

Anti-India sentiments in Bangladesh have worried the New Delhi and fear have spread among the BJP circles of losing its once-close ally. Hence to divert attention of people and woe the Bangladeshi Muslims, India has produced this pack of lies and propaganda movie which is likely to receive cold response from the Muslims in India, Bangladesh and around the world.

Last year in March at least 12 people were killed in a violent protest in Bangladesh against Modi’s visit to Dhaka to participate in the country's 50th independence anniversary.

Millions of Bangladeshi came out on the roads and demanded their government to cancel the invitation extended to Modi for participation in the event.

To divert the growing anti-India sentiments in Bangladesh, now the two governments have produced a movie — Mujib, The Making Of A Nation — to shrewdly lure people to believe that Hindu fascist Modi is the best friend of Bangladeshi Muslims.

The trailer of the film which was recently released shows, that the Pakistan army had carried out brutalities in the 1970s in then East Pakistan.

Analysts believe that the Indian government is also worried about the last year's communication between former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Bangladeshi counterpart.

“ I think New Delhi is worried about Pakistan and Bangladesh growing ties as both countries are slowly building up their relations and that puts Modi in trouble,” Mohammad Hossain, a Dhaka-based political analyst said.

“Now people in Bangladesh also want to go close to Pakistan and no more trust India after growing hatred against the Muslim spread by Modi government in his country,” he viewed.

According to Hossain, the Movie is part of the Indian government's ongoing propaganda against Pakistan as the two South Asian nuclear powers have long enmity and have fought three wars -- in 1948, 1965, and 1971.

“Bangladeshi people are not happy over Modi’s policies against Muslims in India where not only millions of Muslims are facing genocide but New Delhi is also trying to suppress stateless Muslims who went there from Bangladesh decades ago under its new citizenship laws,” he added.

The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has often been accused of pursuing policies that target Muslim minorities and it encourages its extremist groups to carry out violence against Muslims across the country.

Recently, the Indian intelligence agencies sponsored the film “ The Kashmir Files” which was widely criticized across the world for BJP's agenda to spread hatred against Muslims meant to spread anarchy and polarisation in the society hence the film badly flopped.

The government denied any role in the controversial film, however, several state governments, Led by BJP, asked the public and employees to watch the movie that showed the Muslims in Kashmir allegedly carrying out brutalities against upper-class Hindu Pandits.

The state government also waived off tax on the tickets to pave way for the public to watch the movie.

International media also criticized the Indian government and said the film exposed the BJP agenda of religious division in the Hindu majority country.

A prominent Indian journalist Rana Ayyub wrote: "I left the theater, just 30 minutes into the movie, feeling humiliated and physically unsafe. A man yelled at me "Ja Pakistan!" (Go to Pakistan),” according to CNN.

Several videos that went viral on social media appear to show audience members screaming Islamophobic hate speech outside movie theaters and calling for boycotts of Muslim-owned businesses, the report said.

“In one such video, a man can be heard imploring audience members to never watch a film with Muslim actors. In another, a man tells a reporter to "stay far away" from Muslims after exiting the theater. "They can attack us again," he is heard saying.”

Petitions were also filed in courts to ban the movie as it promoted hatred against the Muslims and caused more communal violence in India.

International Human Rights organization repeatedly warned the world community to take action against the growing Islamophobia in India as Muslims are facing genocide and nationalist Hindu groups pushing the country into communal violence.

Recently the Indian courts even issued verdicts against Muslims to ban Azaan in mosques and use loudspeakers for prayer callings.