Ban on Pakistani artistes no solution to terrorism: Karan Johar

Filmmaker Karan Johar, whose upcoming Bollywood entertainer “Ae Dil Hai Mushki” stars one of Pakistan’s most popular actors, Fawad Khan, says the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s demand to ban Pakistani artistes from working in India is not a solution to terrorism.

Karan’s comment comes after the MNS on Friday threatened all Pakistani artistes to leave India, failing which it said it would stall the shooting of their films. The MNS st ancecame after 18 Indian soldiers were killed in a terror attack at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir.

On Sunday, Karan said on a news channel: “I understand the anger and the anguish that surround us and I empathise, my heart bleeds for the lost lives. There is nothing that can justify this terrible feeling of terror. Then you are faced in a situation such as this (asking for ban on Pakistani artistes). If this was truly a solution, then one would take it.”

“But this is not a solution. I don’t believe it is. There are larger forces that have to come together and sort the situation and this cannot be banning talent or art.”

The 44-year-old who has been under verbal attack from various quarters for casting Pakistani talent in his film, says that he feels “vulnerable” while speaking about the issue publicly.

“I feel vulnerable and scared while even saying this. I completely feel the pain and anger. If my film is targeted because of this, it will make me exceptionally sad because my intent was always to put out a creative product out of love and nothing else,” he said.

When asked how will he deal with the threats, Karan said: “I don’t know… I beseech everyone to look at it holistically and understand the situation, that there is a larger situation here and it has nothing to do with banning talent. Let’s look at it from a larger perspective and find the answer.”

The director shared that sometimes creative people feel so frustrated that they just want to “fold hands and say ‘Leave us alone’.”

“I am not somebody who can find the answer. I am nobody in the scheme of things. I am just a filmmaker, telling a love story. Today I feel that I am a vulnerable soft target. I have faced it, felt the repercussions of it in the past, and I have constantly combated that.”

“Sometimes, you just want to fold your hands and say, ‘We are a creative industry. Please leave us alone. We make movies, we spread love. There are millions in the world, in our country who are happy with the work we do, allow us that…’ I think we should just not be those soft targets anymore. We don’t matter in the scheme of things but we can make things happier and better,” he said.

Apart from Karan, even superstar Shah Rukh Khan and the Bhatt camp were under attack by some people, for bringing in Pakistani talent in India. SRK is working with Mahira Khan in “Raees”, while the Bhatts have worked with multiple talents from the other side of the border in their various productions.

Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya has been vociferous in his anger against them. He has called for “ActAgainstPak” and called “Johars, Bhatts, Khans” traitors.

“Shame Karan Johar, Mahesh Bhatt for breeding, feeding them #UriAttack,” he said on Twitter.

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  • *offtopic
    According to BOI ,Top actors from 1990-99 ,1.SRK 2.AAMIR 3.SALMAN 4.AJAY 5.AKSHAY ;From 2000-09 ,1.SRK 2.HRITHIK 3.SALMAN 4.AAMIR 5.AKKI ;After 2010 ;1.SALMAN 2.SRK 3.AAMIR(bcoz he had done just 3 movies) .4.HRITHIK 5.AKSHAY .So,salman fans ,If u say HNY don’t have any opening record just bcoz BOI says ,then also accept SRK was bigger than SALMAN in 90’s .Dear akkians ,if u say Krrish 3 do not collected 244 cr. ,bcoz BOI says it, then also accept that AKKI is nowhere close to HRITHIK in 2000-10 and AKKI is still smaller than Hrithik in this decade.
    PRDP is not 200 cr. according 2 boi ,salman has not crossed 40 cr. on op. day acc to BOI ,Akki’s movies in 2015 like baby ,brothers and SIB has 20-30 cr. difference b/w boi and producers figure(50 cr. manipulation in 2015 )
    Haters degrade Hrithik and srk by using BOI fig. and use producer fig. in their case .
    And last but not the least, DOES BOI HAS ANY HONESTY CERTIFICATE ???? Why they r right and producers wrong???

  • RIGHTLY SAID.. HOW CAN BANNING AN ARTIST SOLVE THIS ISSUE..
    IF IT DOES THEN GO AHEAD AND DO IT..
    WE AS AN INDIAN ALWAYS BEEN FOOLED BY THE GOVT…
    #JUST FOR FEW PUBLICITY THESE POLITICIANS DO ALL THIS AND WE FOLLOW THEM..
    THIS IS THE SAME MNS WHO USE TO REMOVE NORTH INDIANS FROM MAHARASHTRA..WHAT HAPPENED AT THAT TIME..WER THE NORTH INDIANS WERE NOT INDIAN AT THAT TIME?
    IF U REALLY FEEL FOR COUNTRY THEN DO SOMETHING FOR IT..

  • We all know why are you saying this shit kjo….you want to save your crap adhm…your country doesn’t matter for you….those Indian soldiers have lost their lives only for us…but for you what matters the most is to promote your movie at any cost. You think that Indian Army is foll who will always sacrifice their lives for us & in return people like you are promoting pak actors.
    Shame on you!

  • Ae Dil hai mushkil have mainly Indian talent- Ranbir, Anushka Sharma, Aishwarya Rai. Fawad is having a small role. I am totally with Indian Army. But I also want to see Ae Dil hai mushkil

  • Yes it is true that creative people are the soft targets of the politicians.

    Lets for instance think we banned Fawad and Mahira, then what ? will there be no more fear of terror or attacks. The answer is straight NO. These politicians who are targeting these Pakistani actors are clearly doing this to show their fake patriotism and fake emotion on the tragedy. And others who actually think that things will change after banning them then sorry but your family has not taught you about how to treat your Mehmaan. Its really saddening that another film is going to be a prey of these specific politicians. There will be strike and we know that it will happen. Really disgusting and dirty games of this world. Kaam koi aur kare aau bhugte koi aur.

  • Just want to know all the Pakistani artist working in India and earning lots of money what is their view on uri attack? Will they Condemn the Pakistan government policy of sponsoring terriosm India?

  • Really Pakistani actors should ban. There is no shortage of talents in India but Indian are died because shortage of work

  • Thats the problem of India – I only care about myself… my profits… my happiness… my comfort… As a youth of india I feel the coming generation… the youth of this country should shun this quality… It is not about banning artist… its about how selfish is the statement from karan johar… He could had been silent on it… Its a different matter that i dont support pakistani artist working in bollywood ( as i feel the hard earned money of indian public goes into watching the movies .. which goes to producer.. which goes to these actors.. which goes to pakistan ..which goes in form of taxes and stuff to the govt and in turn goes into training of terrorist .. So my personal view is its indirectly supporting terrorism via a long chain…) but the issue here is about being selfish about the prospects of his movie… I feel the lives of soldiers is more important than profits of kjo.

  • karan! why we leave u alone ? r u not citizen of india ? is ur work only doing movies ? u should have take atleast one step to fight with pakistan but u can’t………u want to make money from pakistani artist and giving them earning.

    if u r responsible Indian , further u will not be doing movies with pakistani artist. ADHM wil be the last and final.

  • Forget Shivaay. Even if ADHM released solo, I would not go for it.
    The trailer has nothing new.
    Same old confusion between romance and friendship.

    Looks like a mix of KKHH and KANK.
    The location is in Europe. Actors are Indian. Characters are muslim and speak hardcore urdu. Where is consistency?

    I guess, KJO cannot do anything else apart from repeating the same old story…

    Only fools will pay to watch Adhm…

    Karan johar making these statements to gain publicity..

    Only shivaay this diwali..

  • Mr. Johar and his supporters, u all shud know that these Pakistani actors are earning our hard earned money. .Johar is businessmen, he only wants to run his business.In simple words if ur mother is getting attacked by someone and you are feeding attackers supporter!..Get life guys…you don’t have any of your family member in Indian defence forces so u would never feel their pain…..

  • well series of steps are required to fight terrorism, more so when one country openly supports it.

    Sanctions against a country by the world could be one such step. Remember when sanctions are imposed against a country, it not only harms the terrorists but also the common public in general. These are ways of hurting the country and making them realise that India/world would not take such acts lying down…

    This does not mean that its right to stop the release of ADHM or Raees……most definitely these films should be allowed to have a peaceful wide release…….but certainly I feel that we dont need Pakistani artists in our country if such are the relations and tensions between the two countries…..

    We not allow Pakistani cricketers to participate in IPL??? Why do we differ when it comes to Pakistani artists………..that too under such serious and unfortunate circumstances!!!

    Let the artists peacefully return to their country……let our Indian films release peacefully…….and the industry does not need Pakistani artists going forward…..Period!!!

    Time has come to withdraw the Most Valuable Nation status granted to Pakistan and cut off all diplomatic and trade ties……..!!!!!!!!!!!

  • If banning pakistan artist not solve terror issue.. than terrorists also cant solve kashmir problem…

    So y we support anythng from pakistan..
    I also lyk fawad,atif,rahat.. but at current scenario banning ths artist its right thng..

    Fight with army to army.. face to face.. thn no problm wth pakistan.. but they support terror nd terrorist against india..

  • @A.B so BOI is like a satyavadi raja harishchandra? LOL. Salman was not even in top 10 in 2000-2010 period and aamir was on top in 2000-2010 so how is salman ahead of aamir during that period? . Even with only 3 movies aamir is also on top in 2010-2016 and srk is on 3rd.

  • So anything new and exciting in this adhm? Same old Bollywood junk. No thanks, Karan Johar.

    hahahaha so finally Kjo a gyi apni aukat p,,,,,yeh log kbi DDLJ or KKHH s aage nhi aa paige…wahi ghisa pita raag nayi thale mai parosa jata a raha hain….songs se film pata ni chalte ab trailer aaya hain asliyat batani likhba lo yeh film agar chale toh sirf diwali fast ki wajha se or kya pata wo bhi na chali so i am with shivaay …. kya wahi quitiyapa hajar br dkhi hm sb..

    So only SHIVAAY..

  • I want remind dailog from film phantom Indian Govt can’t do anything against terror they can only stop playing cricket between two country. Politician stop fooling us n playing with our emotion, take bold step against terrorist instade of targetting actors

  • pakistani artist earn few crore in india and indian movie earn more than 100 crores per year
    money is nothing to talk
    karan is right ban paki is not the solution

  • The chain you are speaking is partially true. But what about the hundreds of people’s involved in the filmmaking who earns income through their profession. What about the crores invested by the producers? Distributors and the rest?

  • pakistani artist earn few crore in india and indian movie earn more than 100 crores per year
    money is nothing to talk
    karan is right ban paki is not the solution

  • Grow up guys, for heavens sake. What Fawad Khan and Pakistani stars got to do with India Pakistan politics. If Govt of India has issued them visas and legal documents to stay in India, then they are within legal rights to stay in India.
    If you do not like them, just do not watch their movies. Follow the law of the land and if the pakistani stars are operating within the Indians laws, then it is OK.
    Its time to grow up guys and stop this nonsense.

  • Tell me one advantage of allowing Pakis to work in India ?

    Salute to Raju Shrivastav, Subhash Chandra and Abhijeet Bhattacharya.

    So called Indian Seculars changed their fb DP when Parris was attached. But they dont have any sympathy for our Martyrs.

  • @AB
    20-30cr difference??
    Maths weak hai kya???
    Baby
    Boi (82) producer (95) 20-30cr difference????
    Brothers (70.7) BOI producer (82.8) 20-30 difference ???
    Sib (71) Boi producer (87) 20-30cr difference???

  • Ek taraf bolteho Bhai Bhai!! Dusri bar kawn Bhai!!! Both countries should sort the fact straight!!!

    Guys ! Guys guys!!! Do you know this:

    2010- SALMAN Bhai
    2011- SALMAN Bhai
    2012-SALMAN Bhai
    2013- Aamir khan
    2014- Aamir Khan
    2015- SALMAN Bhai
    2016- SALMAN Bhai
    2017- SALMAN Bhai

    Break That record!!! No Actor in history has 3 consecutive HGOY ….I don’t know if any one has two 3 consecutive HGOY

  • @mm, no matter how much u say it, it doesn’t make it true..Pakistan is not training terrorists…Terrorists are training terrorists..And the amount of money gone from an actor like Fawad goes to Fawad and not to Pakistan..All Pakistanis do not have one joint account!!!Even if a portion of it goes to Pakistani Government in form of taxes than it also goes to indian governments in the form of taxes while he is shooting the film in india…And how is Karan selfish when he is talking about others..??Why should he be silent when he is being targeted and asked about it in an interview..?? Imagine 2morrow the government says Knorr should be banned because it is from a country where terrorists are also present..?? Will it seem to be fair then.?? And just by being a “youth” of india doesn’t make your comment any more important…But it shows that even in the future relations between Pak and India will remain like this as the “youth” of india have this twisted mindset…If lives of soldiers are more important than profits of kjo than go donate some money to the army or to the families of the soldiers that died and honour their memory instead of creating a mockery of it by making stupid statements like banning Pakistani actors and whatnot…

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