The Royals` track launch occasion cancelled following Operation Sindoor

In a decisive transfer, Netflix India, on Might 7, referred to as off the music launch of its upcoming sequence, The Royals. The cancellation got here after India’s navy launched Operation Sindoor, placing 9 terror camps in Pakistan within the early hours of Wednesday. In a press release, the federal government stated that its navy had 
focused “terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir from the place assaults in opposition to India have been deliberate and directed”. This comes as a response to the April 22 assault in Pahalgam.      

The music launch of the Zeenat Aman, Bhumi Pednekar and Ishaan Khatter-starrer was scheduled to happen at a Juhu venue yesterday. The occasion was to be hosted by singer and composer duo Ruuh and Joh, with performances by Neeti Mohan, Sukriti Kakar, Jubin Nautiyal, and Jonita Gandhi, amongst others. Invites had been despatched out, and preparations had been on in full swing earlier than the choice to cancel was made Wednesday midday.

Zeenat Aman

Sources throughout the manufacturing workforce affirm that the highest bosses at Netflix India deemed it “insensitive” to host a celebratory occasion at a time when the nation is witnessing escalating battle on the border, and feelings are operating excessive within the nation. “This isn’t the appropriate second for glamour and crimson carpets. The optics of internet hosting a launch whereas the nation is bracing for developments on the frontlines didn’t sit proper with the workforce,” stated a supply. Whereas the sequence will drop on-line as scheduled on Might 9, all promotional actions have been paused till additional discover.