Talk:Mujib: The Making of a Nation

Note about TIFF
Although I see a lot of Indian and Bangladeshi sources on the Google claiming that this film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, the actual program calendar on TIFF's own website, which is still fully accessible despite the festival being over, shows absolutely no trace of it under any title. Nothing under Mujib: The Making of a Nation, nothing under Bangabandhu, no trace of Shyam Benegal as the director of any film in the program — and while numerous magazines (such as Variety, Screen Daily and The Hollywood Reporter) reported each and every individual TIFF section announcement as a news story that comprehensively listed every single film title that had been announced, not a single article of that type names this film under either title, or Shyam Benegal as a director, in any section announcement at all. I'm not entirely clear on what's going on here, but there just isn't any satisfactory evidence that this actually screened at TIFF. Bearcat (talk) 17:06, 24 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Bearcat But there is a video where I have seen that two actors of the film visited TIFF venue to enjoy the film with audiences. You can find the video here. Mehedi Abedin 18:14, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Instagram posts aren't reliable sources, and are painfully easy to fake. You need to show evidence that the film was actually listed in a TIFF program by TIFF, because it just isn't showing up in the program listing on TIFF's website at all. Also, the Indian/Bangladeshi sources are claiming that it was screened at Lightbox 7, but the Lightbox only has five screens. Bearcat (talk) 18:24, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Bearcat Even from the official account of the film? Mehedi Abedin 18:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Film public relations promoters have been known to make false or inflated claims to help promote their films, so yes, even an Instagram post "from the official account of the film" still doesn't cut it.
 * Again, problem #1 is that TIFF's website doesn't list it — and TIFF is obviously the authority on what films TIFF did or didn't screen. The film would have to be listed in the calendar on TIFF's website, but it isn't. And again, problem #2 is that Lightbox 7 simply does not exist, because the Lightbox only has five screens. So given that TIFF has failed to actually list this film as part of its program on its own website at all, and the Indian press are claiming that the film premiered on a screen that doesn't even exist, what we would need to see is confirmation that was published by TIFF. Bearcat (talk) 18:57, 24 September 2023 (UTC)