‘He’s a son of a bitch – but he’s usually right’: why did Seymour Hersh quit the film about his earth-shattering exposés?

He is the prickly, hotheaded journalist who uncovered the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and torture at Abu Ghraib prison. Making Cover-Up, a film about his astonishing life and countless scoops, was never going to be easy One morning last month, Seymour Hersh set off to buy a newspaper. The reporter walked for 30 minutes, covered six blocks of his neighbourhood, Georgetown in Washington DC, and didn’t see a single sign of life. No newsstands on street corners selling the glossies and the dailies. No self-service kiosk where you can slide in a dollar and pull out a paper. “Finally, I found a drugstore that had two copies of the New York Times in the back,” Hersh recalls. He bought one for himself. He can’t help but wonder whether anybody bought the second. Hersh was born in Chicago in 1937, the year the Hindenburg airship blew up and the aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific. That makes him a man of hot metal, the media’s ancient mariner, with metaphorical newsprint on his ...

Pathaan row: Madhya Pradesh speaker dares Shah Rukh Khan to watch the film with daughter Suhana Khan

Days after the Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh Narottam Mishra slammed the song ‘Besharam Rang’ from Pathaan for the allegedly vulgar outfits worn by Deepika Padukone, the assembly speaker of the same state Girish Gautam has echoed the same sentiments. He even went onto challenge the film’s lead actor Shah Rukh Khan to watch the film with his daughter Suhana Khan.

“I would like to tell this to Shah Rukh Khan that his daughter is now 23-24 years old. Go and watch the film with your daughter and post the picture on social media saying that I am watching this film with my daughter in which there is Deepika Padukone,” he said in a video while speaking to a group of reporters in his office.

Girish Govind also dared the makers to make a film on Prophet Mohammed while hinting at Deepika’s saffron-coloured bikini in the song. “I dare you to make a film on the Prophet in the name of freedom. There will be riots in the entire world,” he added.

Directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Aditya Chopra’s banner Yash Raj Films, Pathaan has been facing outrage from the political class and ‘religious’ groups representing both Hinduism and Islam.

Pathaan is slated to release on January 25, 2023.

Also Read: Pathaan Row: Protestors attempt to disrupt the shoot of Shah Rukh Khan starrer Dunki in Jabalpur



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