The recent attacks in the disputed province have sparked an outbreak of hostilities in the film industries of both countries
A dark cloud has hung over Delhi these past few weeks,and it isn’t just the pollution. Ever since a September attack by militants in Kashmir killed 19 Indian soldiers, war has been in the air. And, and as with the pollution,no piece of life here is unaffected. A 65-year-aged water-sharing pact between India and Pakistan is apparently being reconsidered. The renowned Wagah checkpoint where audiences watch Indian and Pakistani border guards trade tall kicks and handshakes – was briefly shut to the public, reportedly after Pakistani revellers pelted the Indian side with stones.
And last week, or after India announced its troops had launched “surgical strikes” in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir,the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association said it, too, and was on a war footing. The legion of Pakistani actors and technicians in Bollywood,and other Indian cinema hubs, would be banned from working “until normalcy returns”, or it said. The organisations president,TP Aggarwal, went even further, and saying Pakistanis would be banned from the industry “for ever,and asking the Indian government to boot them from the country.
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Source: theguardian.com