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.
Let’s make it simple, we don’t want Pakistan people to suffer at the same time we don’t want Indians to die at border. By not allowing Pakistan’s to work in India is part of solution to crunch them financially, so that these projected representative of Pakistan come out and lash their government for terrorist activities. These people have earned enough from our land and our soldiers family don’t even get what they deserve.
Let’s isolate them at global level by not supporting any trade with them and also boycotting movies in which they work.
Nothing against Karan Jo movie, but it’s the timing that the movie needs to be boycotted, seeing this as example other filmmakers will also refrain them from casting and when they get financial hit, which eventually will cause them to oppose their own government.
Cant agree more
We all should ban all the Pak actors
That way we need to give message to Pakistan.all terrorist sale
Ali Kazmi – an actor from Pakistan – has a bigger role than Shivaay than Fawad Khan does in ADHM. Why not ban Shivaay first?
Gays sorry guys like him n all paki lovers should be send to Porkistan n see/ feel how their shitty democracy compares to ours… Then they will finally know n truly love our freedom more n understand our anger objectively…!
Hes being subjective n if he did look at the situation objectively then he will know that the porkis simply dont want any good relations with us…!
We must stop feeding their pathetic actors n giving them roles that our boys n girls can do better…!
Crappy films like Raeesa Bhabhi n ‘Maya Memsaab- The Dharma Version’ should never be released here but simply wrapped up n packaged to Porkistan- let us torture them by giving them 2 sure shot crapfests…!
MNS should kick him out n send him to Peasantstan where he will finally realise how their society treats gays sorry guys like him…!
My anti Porkistan comments have on previous articles been denied access to your platform yet I remember vividly how you allowed that porki Javeeeda the use of your platform to rant like a mad man against hindus n Indians last yr..!
Shame on you for being paki sympathisers…!
But KJ’s movies in these days r value-less SO more dangerous as terrorists for all INDIAN YOUTH !!
Some of the comments indicate that how some guyzz r giving buildup of their maturity….think like an indian…we r helping Pakistanis 2 earn money…showing Pakistan as good in films.want2 have friendly relations with pak..what we got. back… Killing Of our soldiers….we should not maintain any relationship with terrorist country r its people…just throw all Pakistanis out of india…including kjo whoz infiltrating Pakistanis into our country
Well what I want know is had karan johar movie not been announced for release will he have come out like this? Other Directors having Paki artists have not yet commented then why he so sudden?
I have nothing against adhm I kind of like Fawad but they should at least have sent their condolence message on Air to the affected victims …at least!!
Karan ,see what greed leads too? Next time nobody will tell you that Ajay D movie has an open clash candidate. Stop using India as hide out ,you are mainly concerned with Your profit, especially after figuring out your trailer was a reject , now you can’t avoid shunning from the audiences.
After the PathanKot attack so called secular parties & award winner return the award . But after Uri attack nobody return the award this chut… karan johar not single word against the Pakistan . When our MNS party talk about uri attack some users saying they are showing fake patriotism they have really love their country that’s why they are worried . In Kashmir one community peoples burned Indian flag why people like karan not single word against them he is defending paki .
Afew wks back many of the muslims on this site bashed me when I ridiculed that peasant javeeedas ludicrous claim about hos demise in 2018 from an incurable life threatening mental disease..!
I didnt care bcoz I knew acouple of things that you porky sympathisers refused to see:-
1- peasants like him make up porky lies as easily as anything and
2- you cant trust these pork eating peasants, they all sympathise n some even sponsor these terrorists who carry out their carnal desires of attacking my beloved India…!
Remember its about loving your family friends home community before trying to reach out to an alien backward looking peasant country whose peasants dont care about your offer of friendship one iota…!
You can go to any mosque n these mosque ldrs force their peasant worshippers to donate money to social causes back home- well we all know what these causes are- the destruction of India…!
Whether voluntarily or not they all sponsor terrorists even if some are ignorant to the truth..!
@A.B,
Live In your Dreams!!!
RUSTOM VS MJD clash made everything clear that who has more popularity,bigger fanbase,greater stardom.
If u talk about negativity even “ENTERTAINMENT” with such a pathetic trailer took a 11 cr opening.
But MJD had historical genre(which was hot in b.o),Universal Appeal etc but even then it failed to get a 10 cr opening day.
#SHAME
#LOL
Just tell me one thing.. what good will pakistan get from attacking indian troops? Stop the hatred guys, pakistan is suffering from terrorism and we are fighting against it more than any nation out there.. these attacks are all politically planned things, plz dnt listen to your politician.. As i want pakistan to progress and become peacefull, the same we want for every human being outhere.. be safe, spread love, Jeo aor jeny do
@mm but he is saying also against terror but he already made a movie when everything is good ,,,,its not his fault its govt fault who provide visa to thse paki idiots
Y u ppl r not getting..we want nothing of Pakistan..that’s it ..we r not against fawad or mahira .we r against a terror supporting nation. And we cant bear any thing related to it especially after URI attacks..
kjo is ryt..banning them is nt a solution
The Pakistani artists are yet to condemn uri attack…I think we should just ban everything that comes from Pakistan whether it’s Artist ya Water…
Karan – no one would ban them but they should take a stand. Fawad Khan after Paris attack tweeted but mysteriously silent after uri attack. They should clearly take a stand against terrorism irrespective of the country. But their silence when such things happen in India but first tweet mourning death in Paris (which is good) shows how they still want to support pak state but won’t to make crores in India … India for them is just a cash cow
The point is none of the guys commenting here mostly from Pak don’t get is it is about taking a stand… Forget a stand SRK akshay amitji all tweeted offered prayers money etc… Mysteriously none of the Pak actors did – fawad, Ali Zafar, Rahat Fateh, mahira etc but they will if something happens in USA Paris … Why this silence when it comes to India ? They want to make money from India but Indian lives don’t matter is it ?
@Anshuman_Mhp – brother half baked knowledge is a dangerous thing… International embargo are not an uncommon thing… People have placed international embargo a before in such situation
US has done that with North Korea Russia etc… Yes for enemies you need to stop any trade with them… Why can’t you get thise simple points ?
Get lost karan johar..
MNS should ban shivaay also as it has pakistani artist… Why double standards?? Sorry to see Karan johar has to go through second time after my name is khan movie….. Sad to see most Indians are emotional fools who can’t open their eyes and always tied to dirty politics!!.
If Pakistani army or terrorists killed our jawans then why don’t you go n fight like a MAN and kill those terrorists instead of targeting soft people???. This kind is scenario can be compared with old hindi movies where the villain try to capture heroine or hero’s mother to emotionally attack the hero…
Banning pak artist wlll not stop terrorism butbut we cant tolerate these paki but we cant tolerate these pak artist bannin these will answer tht imdian audience is no mood to entertaint by pak . kjo is business man he also tall abt love but he use all dirty tricks ban pak u are n artist but ur indian as well
artistes ??
Plural of artist -> artists
Agree with Karan Johar and SRK
Entertainment has no boundaries and politics
@Rocky, shouldn’t u be happy that an indian is making money off of a Pakistani..??
Seems pretty anit-national for you to think otherwise..