Mumbai: A day after parents of late Major Mohit Sharma moved Delhi High Court seeking a stay on Ranveer Singh’s ‘Dhurandhar’, the widow of Karachi cop Chaudhary Aslam threatened legal action over negative portrayal of her husband in the film.
Aslam was a famous encounter specialist who fought fearlessly against terror and criminal gangs in Karachi.
The recently-released trailer of Ranveer’s ‘Dhurandhar’ offers a glimpse into Karachi’s notorious Lyari neighbourhood, which was once dominated by two criminal gangs.
In ‘Dhurandhar’, Sanjay Dutt portrays the character of the Karachi cop.
According to a PTI report, Aslam’s widow Naureen Aslam is waiting for ‘Dhurandhar’ to hit theatres in India on December 5 to see how the filmmakers have portrayed her husband in the film.
Taking offence to a dialogue in the trailer, where Aslam is described as a ‘devil and a jinn’s child’, she said, “We are Muslims and such words are disrespectful to not only Aslam but his mother as well who was a simple honest woman.”
“If I see my husband being portrayed wrongly or any propaganda against him in the film, I will definitely take all legal steps I can,” she added.
Expressing her disappointment over Indian filmmakers’ ‘maligning’ Pakistanis every now and then, she said, “My husband was a brave and courageous police officer and his name was feared by criminals and terrorists… I am surprised that they have portrayed Rehman Dakait as a big terrorist although I know from my husband he was a extortionist, kidnapper and a criminal.”
On January 9, 2014, Aslam, two other police officers, his driver and guard were killed in a terrorist bomb attack on his car on the Lyari Expressway.
In 2011, he had survived a bomb attack at his residence in which eight people were killed.
Aslam led the law enforcement agencies crackdown on Lyari gangsters, including Rehman Dakait and Uzair Baloch and Taliban terrorists.
Besides Ranveer and Sanjay, ‘Dhurandhar’ also stars Akshaye Khanna as a Dakait, R Madhavan as Indian spy master Ajay Sanyal and Arjun Rampal as Major Iqbal from ISI.
