Despite such incidents, Pakistani talent has been working in Indian films for many years, such as pop star Ali Zafar who played the lead role in Tere Bin Laden. The ban was finally lifted in 2008 allowing a trickle of Bollywood releases but some individual titles have been banned such as 2010’s comedy hit Tere Bin Laden (Without You, Bin Laden), which spoofed the search for Osama bin Laden. Given the tense relations, Indian films were banned in Pakistan since 1965 but Bollywood has enjoyed massive popularity, especially via pirated home videos since the eighties. The edgy neighbors have fought three major wars since then. Khan plays a James Bond-inspired character as agent Vinod, a spy from India’s intelligence bureau, the Research and Analysis Wing, which has been engaged in a real-life cloak and dagger face-off over many decades against Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI.įollowing the end of British rule in 1947, Pakistan was carved out of India as a separate state. ![]() It’s a world full of Nazis, Communists, spies, double agents, greedy capitalists, and plain old-fashioned thugs. 1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry. “But I understand if they (Pakistan) get upset because we are beating them up quite often in the film.” Welcome to a world of moral ambiguity, deceit, and treachery set against a backdrop of 20th Century international events. “ Agent Vinod is for Indians, but it is not against Pakistanis,” said the movie’s lead actor and co-producer, Saif Ali Khan in an interview with the Indo-Asian News Service. ![]() “It falls under the negative codes of our censor,” he added without providing further details. ![]() “It was our judgment that it should not be allowed to be screened,” Pakistan’s Film Censor Board vice chairman Muhammad Ashraf Gondal was quoted by the Associated Press. Michelle Yeoh Is Oscars' First Asian Best Actress Winner: "This is a Beacon of Hope and Possibilities"
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