Director gheraoed by Jadavpur univ students tweets for help, 'They are breaking my car'
May 06, 2016  18:39
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Just in: 'Buddha In A Traffic Jam' director Vivek Agniotri faces protests at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Students gheraoed the director's car  prompting @vivekagnihotri  to post this picture and a few others tweeting, "Massive protest against me and the film. They are breaking the car apart. Help needed."

The director was reportedly gheraoed by the students who raised slogans against the movie, and accused Agnihotri of working on the RSS agenda for portraying communists in a poor light.

Agnihotris political satire Buddha In A Traffic Jam has been cancelled at Jadavpur University due to state elections.

The filmmaker took to Twitter earlier in the day and posted a letter that he received from the university , which states that the screening has been cancelled due to model code of conduct prevailing due to state election.

The letter received from Alumni Association of the university to Agnihotri states: I regret to inform you that due to model code of conduct prevailing due to state election, we are unable to allow you to screen the movie on Buddha In A Traffic Jam. Please bear with us. I instruct the office to refund the booking money. Thankyou.

Agnihotri who was here for the screening posted the letter with a caption saying: I reached Kolkata in the morning for the screening of #BuddhaInATrafficJam at Jadavpur Univerdity but they cancelled it

The cancellation of letter for the screening of Buddha In A Traffic Jam at Jadavpur Univ. What a lame excuse, he added in the tweet.

Inspired from Agnihotris own life, Buddha In A Traffic Jam deals with corruption and Maoism in a business school. It features actors like Mahie Gill, Aanchal Dwivedi, Pallavi Joshi, Anupam Kher, Arunoday Singh and Vivek Vaswani.

The film will release on May 13.
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