Adding to the PM’s praise for the movie, Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on social media, “No matter how hard a powerful ecosystem tries, it cannot keep the truth hidden in darkness forever.”Released last week, the Vikrant Massey and Raashii Khanna-starrer movie is based on the 2002 Godhra train burning tragedy, in which 59 people, mostly Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from a ceremony in Ayodhya, died in a fire.This is the second movie within eight months to have been declared tax-free by the MP CM Dr Mohan Yadav. Prior to it, in March, the CM had declared Yami Gautam-starrer Article 370 tax-free in the central Indian state. Article 370 focused on the rise of terrorism in Kashmir and the government’s fight against it, including the abrogation of Article 370 by the Narendra Modi government on August 5, 2019, ending the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir.The government, however, didn’t give a similar tax benefit to the Pankaj Tripathi-starrer movie Mai Atal Hoon, which was a biopic on former PM and BJP patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Importantly Vajpayee’s Indore-based niece Mala Tiwari had written to PM Narendra Modi in January, to make the movie Mai Atal Hoon tax-free for infusing the spirit of nationalism among youths.
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