Kolkata: Jadavpur University students protest against Vivek Agnihotri and screening of his film

Students of Jadavpur University protested against Vivek Agnihotri and the screening of his film on campus on Friday.

The filmmaker, along with Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, was scheduled to attend a special screening of his film Buddha in a Traffic Jam at the Triguna Bhawan in the university. According to sources, Anupam Kher backed out from attending the screening in the last minute. 

When the university authorities learnt that the students were gathering to stage a protest against the screening, they also cancelled it at the last minute. The authorities cited the state elections as reason and said that the screening would violate the model code of conduct (MCC). 

Despite, the cancellation of the film, the filmmaker decided to go ahead with screening the film on campus and faced massive protests from the students. Agnihotri wrote on Twitter,

Massive protest against me and the film. They are breaking the car apart. Help needed. pic.twitter.com/Q6lwWRvZG9

— Vivek Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) May 6, 2016

As soon as Agnihotri reached the campus, he was shown black flags and placards by the students of Jadavpur University urging him to go back. Several RSS supporters had accompanied him to the university. 

Jadavpur University students protest against director Vivek Agnihotri who was in campus for screening of his film pic.twitter.com/z4O8teOCjP

— ANI (@ANI_news) May 6, 2016

Agnihotri later told ANI, "Unfortunate that film screening wasn't allowed. It should have been allowed."