India’s intelligence agency fears violence over Indira Gandhi film

India's intelligence agency has warned of potential violence around the release of , a Punjabi film which portrays the assassination of India's former prime minister Indira Gandhi.

The film tells the story of her assassins, Sikh bodyguards who turned against Gandhi following Operation Blue Star, a military operation to quell revolution in Amritsar in 1984 which left hundreds of Sikhs dead. One of the bodyguards, Beant Singh, was killed by police shortly after, while the other, Satwant Singh, was later hanged.

Director Ravinder Ravi claims that the film is not biased, and that it merely tells the story as drawn from the trial of Kehar Singh, one of the plotters, as well as the confessions of the assassins themselves.

"Allegations that we want to create a law and order problem by showing what happened 30 years ago are meaningless," Ravi told . "We are just reproducing what has been documented."

Protests are being planned by the Punjab Youth Congress, a youth political organisation that claims the film glorifies the assassins. "The movie not only justifies the killing … but is also an attempt to revive terrorism in Punjab," said congress president Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary.

"We hope the [current] Prime Minister [Narendra Modi] will intervene. Otherwise, we would not allow the film to be released in Punjab … the government shall be responsible for any law and order issue that may crop up."