The popular Indian film director Kabir Khan was heckled at the Pakistan’s Karachi airport today by number of protesters who undulated shoes at him and shouted slogans against India as he was about to board a plane for Lahore.
The protesters mobbed the Bajrangi Bhaijaan director, famous for his movies that weave in India-Pakistan ties and asked why he did not make films depicting the role played by India’s intelligence agency RAW in Pakistan.
“You people send Jhadav and kill hundreds here. Why don’t you make a movie about it?” a proteste asked the Bajrangi Bhaijaan director, referring to alleged RAW official Kulbhushan Jhadav who has been arrested in Pakistan.
Another man who was also shoe-wielding said; Mr Khan to the departure lounge, warning the director about A”Indian conspiracies against the Pakistan rmy”, Dawn said.
However, Mr Kabir Khan refused to make any comment over the issue, instead wrote on Twitter to send out an appeal which later started trending.
To media on both sides: 12 screaming lunatics with a mobile phone camera is not news. Please don’t give them the attention they want. Ignore
— Kabir Khan (@kabirkhankk) April 27, 2016
Mr Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan movie which is based on humanitarian love and brotherhood received a warm welcome in Pakistan, where Indian movies are always finds its place as great demand. However, his film Phantom, based on a novel by S Hussain Zaidi, was banned by the Lahore High Court.
Starring Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif, Phantom is about a retired Indian Army officer who leads to kill Pakistani terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed.
However, Mr Khan arrived in Karachi to take part in a conference and said he is a great believer in India’s secular fabric and in the friendship between India and Pakistan.
