"Private lives of public people
23 Nov 2008, 0308 hrs IST, Shobhan Saxena, TNN
How much reality is too much reality? Turkish journalist Can Dundar might like to know. He's has been under siege from hard-core nationalists to
anti-smoking crusaders since the November 10 release of his film, Mustafa, a documentary on the life of modern Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk. There can't be much wrong with the film. After all, a million people have seen it in just two weeks. But the country's moral police is baying for Dundar's blood. He made the mistake of showing some disturbing images of the Turkish icon - Ataturk feverishly drawing on cigarettes and knocking back the booze."
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