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In the wake of the spillover of recent tensions between India and Pakistan on Bollywood, actress Priyanka Chopra says as a ‘patriot’, she would go along with whatever the government decides on the issue. But why only actors are singled out in these discussions, she has asked.
Talking about the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan, Priyanka, whose late father Ashok Chopra was an army officer, told NDTV :
Priyanka, currently seen in the lead role in the popular American TV series Quantico, said:
She thinks that “if someone needs to be hung, the one person that’s picked up is an artiste or a public person from the movie business. That to me, is not fair’’.
India-Pakistan tensions got heightened following a terror attack on an Indian Army camp at Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, in which 19 soldiers were killed, last month. The Indian Army then carried out surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control.
“There are so many different people with so many different opinions and belonging to so many different religions. They have had different sort of upbringing. It's (India is) a difficult country to govern, yet we have managed so well,” she added.
Priyanka stated that we should be more concerned about the safety of Indian soldiers and their families.
Following the September 18 terrorist attack, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena issued an ultimatum to Pakistani artistes to leave India and said the party would not let their movies release in India.
The Indian Motion Picture Producers Association passed a resolution banning Pakistanis from working in films being made in India. In retaliation, some Pakistani theatre chain owners banned the screening of Indian films.
On Friday, the Cinema Owners and Exhibitors Association of India said that movies featuring Pakistani actors would not be screened in single screen theatres in Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat.
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