Thursday, 28 April 2016

Bollywood Director Kabir Khan Assaulted At Karachi Airport

Karachi: Bajrangi Bhaijaan-famed director Kabir Khan was ‘heckled’ at the Quaid-e-Azam International Airport in Pakistan on Wednesday by a number of people present in the airport lounge. The protesters confronted the 43-year-old director claiming that he showed ‘Pakistan in a bad light’ in his latest film Phantom.  The director went to Pakistan to attend a marketing seminar at Lahore, reports said.


Kabir, famous for his ‘firm belief in India's secular fabric’ to rejoice the friendship between Indian and Pakistan, was attacked by a shoe-wield protester wearing black salwar-kameez. However, the director did not respond to any of the comments, sources said.  
Reports are that the angry protesters were heard saying Pakistan Zindabad and repeating anti-India slogans. Also, they had asked Kabir to make film on the activities of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) activities in Pakistan. “You people send Jhadav and kill hundreds here. Why don’t you make a movie about it?” asked a protester who referred to RAW official Kulbhushan Jhadav who has been arrested in Pakistan.
Kabir’s film Phantom based on a storyline of the Mumbai attacks had Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif in the lead role. A story about a retired military officer, who is in a mission to kill the Mumbai attack mastermind, was banned in Pakistan claiming that the film showed a negative picture of Pakistan.

However, Bajrangi Bhaijaan starring Salman Khan made ‘roaring business’ in Pakistan and had promoted Indo-Pak ties in its plot. Kabir Khan denied commenting anything about the incident. He later took to Twitter: “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.”

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