Umar Khalid docu screening
626710 is Present , which was cancelled at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), and National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, was held at NALSAR University of Law in the city on Wednesday evening. 626710 is Present , directed by filmmaker Lalit Vachani, is a documentary about Khalid, tracing his journey from student activist to his arrest in 2020 and subsequent incarceration. Meanwhile, NALSAR vice-chancellor, Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao, said, “NALSAR University of Law did not authorise screening of the documentary film Prisoner No 626710 on its campus.
A group of students who independently organised the “solidarity screening” said it was held to offer an opportunity “to engage directly with the film’s questions about rights, accountability and the human cost of prolonged incarceration, while expressing solidarity with those affected by these failures of the justice system”. Hyderabad: Hyderabad: The screening of Umar Khalid’s documentary, Prisoner No. NALSAR students have called on student bodies across universities to organise similar screenings of the documentary. The documentary has not been certified by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). The board has stated that screening an uncertified film would violate the Cinematograph Act unless a specific exemption has been obtained. Prisoner No. No official permission for the same was given to anybody by any University authority,”