 Two assistant directors were accused of the murder of a local  journalist who had worked for Ashok Dasgupta, editor of "Aaj Kal",  one of the leading Indian newspapers. Dasgupta launched a series of  personal attacks against the production, at one point even accusing  Roland Joffe of making a porn film. Although it later transpired  that the journalist in question had died of lung cancer, Dasgupta  refused to withdraw his attacks, charging Joffe with paying off the  autopsy physicians and police, and demanding that he hire two Indian  crew members because they had insulted him. Joffe refused his  demands.