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Portrayal of Bodos in film `perverse': BSF chief

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GUWAHATI: The Director-General of the Border Security Force (BSF), Ranjit Sekhar Mooshahary, on Sunday dubbed the depiction of the Bodo community as "ultras" in the Hindi film, `Tango Charlie', as "perverse."

Mr. Moosahary, who himself is a Bodo, told reporters here that the director of the film, Mani Shankar, had requested him to see the film in Delhi.

"The director of the film had asked me to see the movie in New Delhi but what I saw is really bad for the Bodo community as a whole," he said.

He alleged that the director had no knowledge of the North-East.

"Otherwise how can you account for the presence of Bodo militants in Manipur as shown in the movie, which is really ridiculous," he said.

The Assam Government had already announced a ban on the screening of the film. The president of the newly constituted Bodoland People's Progressive Front (BPPF) said that two Bodo MPs, Urkhao Gwra Brahma and Sansuma Khunggur Bwiswmuthiary, would move the Guwahati High Court seeking a countrywide ban on the film for showing the Bodos in bad light.

The film shows a young BSF soldier, codenamed Tango Charlie, as a member of a group entrusted the task of flushing out "Bodo militants" from the dense jungles of Manipur.

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