After the Surgical Strike conducted by Indian Army on terror camps located in areas of PoK, there has been a uproar amongst the people in the country on context of the Pakistani actors and actresses in the Indian Film Industry. The Uri effect so to say has driven the Indians on boycotting Pakistani artists in the industry. In such a havoc situation, a Ranbir-Anushka-Aish starrer romantic-drama "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" has some very sensitive issues arising in midst of such political-cum-patriotic mumble jumble.
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The movie features a Pakistani actor in the supporting role - Fawad Khan. The
Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena today said it would
intensify its opposition to Karan Johar’s soon-to-be-released film
“Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” as it features Pakistani actors and issued a
veiled threat of vandalism to the multiplexes if they screened it.
The
opposition by MNS and some other political parties to films with
actors from Pakistan in the aftermath of Uri terror attack has put a
question mark on the fate of Johar’s film which features Pakistani
actor Fawad Khan.
“We
will oppose the screening of the movie everywhere in the state. If
any multiplex operator dares to screen the film, they (operators)
should remember that multiplexes are decorated with expensive glass
sheets,” MNS leader Amey Khopkar said.
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The
party did not favour employing and cherishing the Pakistani actors so
its opposition to such films will continue, he said. “We will also
oppose Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Raees’ though it is slated to release
in January,” Khopkar said in a statement.
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The
party also pointed out that the Indian Motion Picture Producers’
Association has “supported” its stand. The single-screen theatre
operators have announced that they would not screen Johar’s
upcoming film, but there was no similar assurance from the multiplex
operators so MNS today made its stand clear, it said.
MNS,
which once had 13 MLAs in Maharashtra Assembly but was reduced to a
single member in the House in 2014, has taken an aggressive stand on
the issue, apparently to make its presence felt ahead of next year’s
municipal polls in Mumbai.
