Sanam Saeed on Bollywood stereotyping Pakistanis

Pakistani actor Sanam Saeed talked about her favourite Bollywood film and how her colleagues Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan bore the brunt of the ban on Pakistani artistes in India.

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[vamshireddy]

In India Muslims can become Superstars but can you name any big stars in Pakistani Cinema who are non Muslim....

[parvadhami]

Every community has been stereotyped by Bollywood. She being a Muslim, finds her co-religionists are stereotyped. Gujaratis shown as Business-minded, doing garba all day, eating thepla and gaathiya.
Punjabis being always happy, doing bhangra everyday. South Indians clubbed under one single category: Madrasi. Favourite food item Dosa, and favourite actor Rajnikanth.
There are several such examples.

[anujpramanik]

Bajrangi bhaijan had people of both sides collaborating. It was one of the biggest hits in our country. Veer Zaara and even Raazi had showed different facets of Pakistani people. Not everyone was painted alike. Lots of liberal filmmakers in Bollywood are big supporters of Pakistani artists, actors, films and society.

[PrashantKumarPrashant]

She totally forgot to mention how hindus are portrayed in Pakistani movies . Tragic but we are over it

[rdeepikanarayani]

Politics can be ignored when it comes to cultural exchange. But Terrorism is a completely diff game🤨

[pint]

I dont see any non muslim actors from pakistan but unity in diversity is truly followed in indian cinema as we have actors of different faiths especially many muslim bollywood actors acting and ruling bollywood
unlike pakistani cinema where there are only muslim actors and no hindu actors.

[Theshuman]

She emphasized on not mixing art with politics, but didn't mention terrorism even once (the reason why the ban took place). i really feel pity for these hypocrites lol.

[ayushs]

Love how she brushed away the terrorism aspect completely calling it politics.

[rahulupdhy]

She didn't give any example of movie, bas allegation he lagane aata
In india, most of famous and loved actors are muslims, ...koi ek famous non-Muslim influencer ka naam batado Pakistan se, ..

[JM]

Why is she disappointed with the ban and not the terror attack that preceded it?
Turning a blind eye to terrorism isn't tragic? How can one expect cross border cultural exchange to flourish if cross border terrorism is rampant?

Indian film makers need to be called out for stereotyping, sure. Do it responsibly. It isn't politics, it's terrorism specifically. Grow a spine and call it as it is.

[manishak]

It is amazing how she said why mix politics with art (sarcasm)
Just wanted to ask her can we mix terrorism with art?

[ikkljvd]

Want to work in Indian movie industry still want to criticize the industry better we banned them from our industry

[shaileshtiwari]

Does she watch pakistani movies in which how hindus are portrayed?? Hasn't she watched "Maula jatt" in which how hindus are stereotypically portrayed??
She should first see in her own backward instead of lecturing Indians about stereotyping 😄

[akshatpandya]

Totally ironic how I don't see any Hindus in Pakistani Cinema and how they produce movies portraying Inter-caste marriages to promote conversion to Islam and I literally agree that bollywood is stereotyped because all heroes or good people are sans-tilak and whenever they portray a villian, he/she usually has a Tilak on and weary bangles or something and amazing how all songs with maula/khuda illustrate peace and love.

Plus it is way too ironic how Brut didn't report the Udaipur killing incident XD

[thomasthomasphilp]

In India, as a Muslim, you can also become the President. As a Christian, I am safe in India

[surabhishiwangi]

I think, she should be expressing this disappointment to Pakistam instead of Bollywood.
It is because of the non cooperative behaviour of Pakistan that India took that step.
Our 19 jawans were martyred in URI attack. I understand that politics should not be mixed with art and culture. But we can't take this so casually ki raat gayi baat gayi... attack ko bhool jao aur art ko enjoy karo...
The step of ban might have been unfair for the artists. But their grievance are nothing in front of the family members of those martyrs. And, the ban of Pak. artists is Pakistan's and not India's fault.

[MohdSajid-jfpg]

You said muslim shown in bad light in bollywood this one of the most pathetic words i have ever came across from any pakistani instead of calling out former you should watch films of shaan shahid in which he shown hindus and india in bad light

[Its_tanu]

Hindu, mushlim, Christian, shikh and other religions people are safe and free in India.
What about Pakistan?

[astha_singh_parmar]

Yeah... bollywood stereotype Pakistanis, they show them really nice people.

[anmoljha]

They want good representation in our cinema but the question is that what we get in return our soldiers dead body ?? They themselves get indulge in wrong doings and want better representation .... Tell me one why ?? They should just stop taking out Indian muslim card everytime they want something from India .... Lmao 🤦🏻‍♂️😬