Days after forcing the organisers to cancel the concert of Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali and blackening the face of Sudheendra Kulkarni for inviting Pakistan’s former Foreign Minister to Mumbai, the Shiv Sena has warned that actors from across the border will not be permitted to do promotion of their films.
Akshay Bardapurkar, general secretary of the Shiv Sena’s cine wing, told The Hindu that his party had already clarified its stand on Pakistani actors working in Bollywood.
“We have learned that two actors from Pakistan are working in big-budget Hindi movies, and we will not let them promote themselves in Mumbai,” he said.
Big-banner projects
Actor Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan are working on two big-banner projects with Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan respectively. The Shiv Sena has said it will not allow the promotion of these actors.
Waiting for Uddhav’s signal
“Everybody knows what our stand on Pakistani artists is. We have made it clear over and over again,” Mr. Bardapurkar told The Hindu .
Asked whether his party would ask producers not to cast Pakistani actors in their films, he said he would work as per the orders of the leadership. “We are waiting for Uddhavji to speak at the annual Dasara rally on Thursday. We are sure he will clear up a number of issues in his speech and we will work according to his orders,” he said. “We cannot talk with people who are killing our soldiers,” the party MP, Sanjay Raut, had said.
Two weeks ago, the Shiv Sena forced the organisers of Ghulam Ali’s concert in Mumbai to cancel the programme.The party activists later threw black oil paint on the chairperson of Observer Research Foundation, Sudheendra Kukarni. On Monday, they stormed the BCCI headquarters, demanding that the cricket body hold no talks with the Pakistan Cricket Board.
