ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani militant leader with a $10 million bounty on his head over his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks now has a new target: a Bollywood film that imagines him being assassinated.

In a twist worthy of a movie itself, a lawyer for Hafiz Mohammed Saeed wants to ban the upcoming film “Phantom” from being shown, arguing it is Indian propaganda meant to hurt the image of Pakistan abroad.

But beyond the choreographed mayhem of the film’s imagined, perfectly coiffed Indian spies, the movie’s premise lays bare the anger still felt over the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people, including six Americans, as well as tensions between the two nuclear-armed rival countries.

“I am surprised and amused that a wanted terrorist has gone and filed a petition,” film director Kabir Khan recently said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. “He is the one who is spreading hate agenda and he is opposing the film, without even knowing what the film is about.”

Spy revenge films are nothing new, like “Zero Dark Thirty” focusing on the US special forces raid in Pakistan that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden or “Munich,” the Stephen Spielberg film on Israel’s retaliatory assassinations of Palestinians over the 1972 Olympic Games attack by Black September.

The fact Saeed is named in “Phantom” puts him at risk, lawyer A.K. Dogar told The Associated Press.

The movie’s “trailer shows that this film is against Hafiz Saeed and has posed a serious threat to his life,” Dogar said. He wants “Phantom,” due to be released Aug. 28, to be banned from showing in Pakistan. He’ll argue his case before a Lahore court on Thursday.