Amidst the tensions between India and Pakistan, veteran Pakistani actors Bushra Ansari and Asma Abbas, who happen to be sisters, rapped to thaw the tensions between the two countries.
They rapped to the verses written by Neelum Ahmad Bashir highlighting the unnecessary hatred that has been cultivated between the two countries for decades.
The video was released on Ansari’s YouTube channel, where she and Abbas play neighbours who are from India and Pakistan, respectively and are separated by a wall, both literally and metaphorically.
They try to understand the reason behind the divide between the two countries. The food, the music, the language, everything is the same and still there is an insurmountable wall between the two nations.
The YouTube description of the video called it “a music video that goes beyond war and borders to the hearts of people living so close, and yet so far away.”
Here’s Neelum Ahmad Basheer reciting her creation:
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