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Learn more about how we use cookies in our cookie policy. Skip to content Bollywood helps perpetuate the sexual objectification of women. Image: iStock Whenever tensions between Pakistan and India escalate, the entertainment industries become among the prominent punching bags. Loss for Pakistani cinema industry? One look at the replies to their tweets would make my insides churn. It was perhaps because we, Pakistanis, had a delusional idea of dancing and singing Indians on our big and small screens.
A film that flattered him and praised him. All through last year, Bollywood pandered to the right-wing element in India, shattering any last vestiges of secular India or hopes of Pakistan and India coexisting as friendly neighbours instead of constantly warring enemies.
Many Indian friends have been amused to see my shocked reaction. They told me, almost laughingly, that most Indians do not like Pakistan. Somehow, by growing up on Bollywood, and watching Muslims characters in Bollywood films, I had created an idea of India in my head. All this should mean jobs, so how many Pakistani artists will be part of the series?
Forget the fairly laudatory review of the book put out by Associated Press AP. For one, there is a surprise at Kangana Ranaut playing former prime minister Indira Gandhi. But Indira Gandhi?
As they say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Coming so soon after his completing Gangubai Kathiawadi, on the one in Mumbai, has raised mixed interest. Readers and social media participants are debating whether Bhansali would confuse Mumbai culture and lingo with the one that prevailed in Lahore of yore. Would it be chaste Urdu and Punjabi of pre-Partition Lahore? Some ask Bhansali to stick to Mumbai. They speculate how genuine Lahore would be when most Bollywood films depict Lucknowi Urdu and men in a sherwani that differ from Punjab.
All in all, the discourse is enlightening and diverse. It reflects love, hate, indifference, and contempt. But there is no getting away from Pakistani fascination with Bollywood. Once it was lifted, the Pakistani movie industry - which had died a death in the s - also began to revive.
But these Pakistani movies didn't always match Bollywood in budget or star power. And it wasn't the first time India had announced such a ban: Pakistan's Fawad Khan was banned from acting in Bollywood films after an Indian right-wing group demanded that all Pakistani artists leave the country after the "surgical strikes" in Khan had acted in a few Bollywood films by then and continues to enjoy a fan following in India.
The movie's release was punctuated by controversies as right-wing Hindu groups in India demanded for it to be banned. Its release date was delayed in India - but it did not screen in Pakistan, where the censor board claimed the film had "objectionable content". Nadeem Mandviwala, a Pakistani film producer, hopes that this ban is temporary. And let's not forget, these days Bollywood enthusiasts can stream films on Netflix, YouTube and other platforms - reducing the ban to little more than symbolism.
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