AHMEDABAD, OCTOBER 20 Suspected VHP activists on Monday forced a Delhi-based documentary maker to apologise for screening Godhra Tak, a 62-minute documentary, containing footage of the Godhra train carnage and its aftermath.

The documentary, directed by Shubradeep Chakroborty, was screened at Khet Bhavan near Gandhi Ashram. Soon after the screening for mediapersons, around seven persons — who identified themselves as VHP activists — entered the premises and asked the director to apologise for screening the film.

‘‘Do not try to show such films in Gujarat as it will disrupt the peace here,’’ the activists told Chakroborty and asked him if film-maker Mahesh Bhatt had sent him.

Chakroborty denied any Bhatt connection and apologised, but said the film directed by him had no bias. Godhra Tak is his first documentary and has been screened at the South Asia Film Festival in Kathmandu. The director also has plans to show it in Mumbai, Bangalore and Bihar.

Chakroborty said the film tries to weigh the merits and de-merits of the conspiracy theory given by the prosecution and VHP. During the making of the film, he followed the route of the first batch of karsevaks from Gujarat to Ayodhya and also interviewed the survivors of S-6 coach, VHP leader Pravin Togadia, UP BJP chief Vinay Katiyar and Dr Jaydeep Patel, general secretary of VHP, Gujarat.