The Indian reaction to Pulwama Attack is taking new shapes every day. As expected, the majority of it is directed at arts and films in Pakistan, and a lot of things have happened recently in this regard.
On the one hand, India’s All Cine Workers Association has banned Pakistani actors and artists working in the film industry, on the other, Ajay Devgn announced through Twitter that his upcoming film, Total Dhamaal, will not be releasing in Pakistan.
What had started with Javed Akhtar’s tweets that had announced that he wouldn’t be coming to Karachi for an arts council event, has now come to the point that Indian music company, T-Series, is taking down all the songs of Pakistani artists.
Besides Javed Akhtar and Ajay Devgn, many other Indian celebrities have also jumped into this blame game being played by the Indian government and media. The daftness has reached a point where the Indian actress Kangana Ranaut even called for the destruction of Pakistan.
Well, with their celebrities making such accusations on Pakistan, there was definitely going to be a response from this side of the same nature. And here is that respIn a tweet on 15th February, Javed Akhtar had announced that he and his wife would no more be attending the literary conference on Kaifi Azmi in Karachi. The tweet was a polite one, and simply expressed Javed Akhtar’s excuse in the light of current events.
To this, Shaan responded in a series of tweets to Javed Akhtar in the same tone and said that it was actually the right time for the love of arts to prevail over the despair and hate between the two countries.
It seems like Shaan has the battlefield that Twitter has become after the attacks covered in terms of responding to Indian celebrities announcing their actions against Pakistan.
When the news came that Ajay Devgn won’t be releasing his upcoming film, Total Dhamal, in Pakistan, we posted it on our different social media handles, including Twitter. To this, Shaan replied with basically a ‘good riddance’ tweet on our post and said that this is what we wanted all along.
