Fawad asked to quit Bollywood after Uri attack
Mahira and Rahat have also been demanded to leave India
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Wrongly holding Pakistan responsible for Uri attack, Indian journalist has written an open letter addressed to Khoobsurat-fame Fawad Khan demanding him to quit his showbiz career in Mumbai-based Hindi film industry.
Indian media are not new to taking harsh and extremist stances at expense of reputation of Bollywood.
In one of such bizarre developments, Fawad Khan, once again has been asked to call it a day and wrap up his career in India by a journalist known as Soumyadipta Banerjee.
Attack on Brigade Headquarters in Uri Town of Baramulla District earlier this month in Indian-held Kashmir has given a new spark to animosity between India and Pakistan.
Mahira Khan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and other Pakistani artists working in Bollywood have also been asked to quit their careers there.
"By addressing you (Fawad), I want to talk to every Pakistani import to Bollywood. This letter could have well been addressed to Adnan Sami, Raahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mahira Khan… the list is endless and keeps increasing every year," he wrote.
In what appears to be a wrong image of Pakistan, Banerjee goes on to complain, "We give you so much love and money, but your country continues to ban our cinema and our artistes. Fawad, you lack courage. You lack conviction. You lack the guts to stand up against the terrorists of your country who think they are serving God by killing us."
Fawad Khan was earlier threatened by extremist group working in guise of a political party, known as Shiv Sena during the shoot of his last blockbuster, Kapoor and Sons.
Threats that Khan had received then aimed at discouraging him from pursuing business commitments in Bollywood.
Mahira who is to be seen in Shahrukh Khan’s ‘Raees’, a collaboration of Red Chilies Entertainment and Excel Entertainment, the studio behind Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do, also received threats then by Sena.
In October last year, a music concert of classical maestro, Ustaad Ghulam Ali was also cancelled in the capital New Delhi over threats from Sena.
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