Bollywood Shows Solidarity With Pakistani Artistes

The actors stressed that art and politics should not be mixed up and all Pakistanis are not terrorists.

Many Bollywood actors and filmmakers have come out in support of Pakistani performers. (Photo: ANI screengrab)

Many Bollywood actors and filmmakers have come out in support of Pakistani performers, saying that "actors are not terrorists."

Earlier, a Mumbai-based regional party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Samiti, asked Pakistani actors and artistes to leave India within 48 hours or be pushed out in the wake of the recent attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir.

Pakistani cinemas have stopped showing Indian films after India banned Pakistani actors from its movie industry amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals over Kashmir, cinema owners said.

But opinion is divided among Bollywood celebrities on banning Pakistani artistes in Bollywood films.

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