: Playing good cop, bad cop! (IANS Column: B-Town) #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment <br>Javed Akhtar has been hailed for his stand because he did it in Pakistan and in front of a Pakistani audience.

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<br>Javed Akhtar has been hailed for his stand because he did it in Pakistan and in front of a Pakistani audience. Of course, the audience present appreciated what he had to say with applause.
Javed Akhtar was in Pakistan to attend a literary event, but he did not shy away from telling his audience why the Indians were angry. He raised the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks which he, being from Mumbai, had seen very closely. He stated that he was well aware that the terrorists were not from Norway or Egypt, but from Pakistan and the masterminds of the attack were still roaming free in Pakistan!
Javed Akhtar showed the mirror to the Pakistanis on their own soil. And Shabana Azmi is acting in a British film, What Has Love Got To Do, which is directed by Shekhar Kapur and written by Jemima Goldsmith (Imran Khans ex-wife). The film also stars a couple of Pakistani actors.
Talking to the Pakistani media house, Dawn, Shabana Azmi said Pakistan and India could make really good films together. Why? Just because you are taking to the Pakistani media?
Azmi claims that Pakistan has a lot of talent or something to that effect. Does India lack in talent? Our filmmakers are victims of the star system, but if one were to watch television and OTT programmes, one will see how the country is oozing with talent!
From the business angle, why would India want to make films in collaboration with Pakistan, a country that bans Indian films on a whim as is the status now? Their cinemas, which thrived on Hindi cinema, are starving for audiences, but they will still ban Hindi films.
Where is the talent if the Pakistani industry has to fall back on a crude 1979 remake, Maula Jatt, to find its big hit in a long time?
The problem with Pakistanis is that hey dont respect hospitality. As Javed Akhtar said, they never reciprocated by calling the Indian legend to Pakistan. Those who make money here badmouth India on their return to Pakistan and talk to the local media.
The cricketer, Shahid Afridi, is one of them. Rameez Raza, another former cricketer they love, only talks negatively about India. Also heard, a so-called actress, Meera, who spent her evenings allegedly soliciting clients at a Juhu hotel in Mumbai, now has made abusing India her full-time hobby. Then there was Veena Malik; they are all the same. Who doesnt know what the ghazal singer Ghulam Ali said about Indian women while on a flight to a co-passenger not knowing he was an Indian government official.
The Hindi film industry gave work to a lot many Pakistani actors, but they all talked against India, instead of remaining neutral. Is India producing about 2,000 films a year without having its homegrown talent that we need ingrate Pakistani talent?
Yes, Ms Azmi was talking to a Pakistani channel and had to say nice things.

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