Mumbai Attacks caused more than 170 died, 18 film titles on the theme of “Terror at the Taj” were registered with the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association.
Vijay Verma,a producer of Salt and Pepper Entertainment started for movie on Mumbai terror at November 28, when the Indian Army was still fighting heavily armed militant gunmen, room to room, in two luxury hotels.He said that his script was ready and shooting was set to begin in a matter of weeks. Ram Gopal Verma, one of the best-known Indian directors, andhis actor son were among the first people allowed inside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, where scores of people died.“Obviously his intention was to make a film of the attacks,” Komal Nahta, the publisher of The Film Street Journal, a Bollywood trade magazine, said. “And the media went at him with hammer and tongs.”The titles registered after the Mumbai attacks — which include Taj Terror, Bird’s Point of View of Taj Terror and 11/26 Operation Taj — have convinced many that the producers are unlikely to break new ground.There are also doubts about whether India has the stomach for films based on an event that was beamed live into millions of homes for 60 hours. Mahesh Ramanathan, the chief operating officer for Reliance Big, one of the biggest Bollywood studios, said: “Television pushed the reality of the attacks into people’s faces. They won’t watch the same thing in the cinema.”
