Well now this movie has released so called Phantom.
This has been banned in Pakistan. Well I will say that this should be banned in India as well. Why not? If the Govt. can go ahead and ban movies like "Mohalla Assi" and "50 Shades of Gray" for flimsy reasons there is reason enough to ban this movie as it shows violence in tremendous scale and that too against a neighboring country.
I must make it clear that I have not watched Phantom till date and I definitely wont be watching it on the big screen. I will not contribute to its success. I know earlier such things used to happen. When I was in Hyderabad in 1996 I saw Muslim people visiting the movie "Raja Hindustani" in droves.
So I realised just as they vote 'en masse' similarly the Muslim people also watch movies 'en masse'. So they like a certain movie which shows the Urdu/Pashtun way of life they watch it more and more and make it a hit.
Now let us be back to Phantom and Saif Ali Khan. This movie is not a India vs Pakistan war. It is actually Saif Ali Khan war. Saif Ali Khan is fighting his own personal war. A war to keep himself relevant in the Hindi film industry. I know that his movie"Humshakals" bombed at the box office. So what will he do now. The social media and Twitter users lambasted him for Humshakals. So now he is trying to prove his mettle by showing that he can go after Pakistan. He has already ventured the area in Agent Vinod.
What I am trying to say is that Saif Ali Khan has nothing to lose by acting in a movie like Phantom. But if his movies start bombing in the box office, he would have lost tremendously.
Also, I had read somewhere years back that Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor have visited more than 150 locations right before and after their marriage. That count could have increased subsequently. It means no location in the world would be out of bound for them. No location would be too exotic for them. But the Saif may have realised that he just cannot get rid of that "Indian tag" wherever he goes.
"Once an Indian always and Indian". Thus how does he make himself relevant. Phantom is the answer.
Now let us get back to Phantom and Kabir Khan. This person Kabir Khan as I read in papers also is well travelled and has made documentaries in war-torn regions starting from Yugoslavia to Beirut.
Now we know that Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgun and Sunny Deol have acted in anti-Pakistan movies. During "Ek Tha Tiger" itself which was made by Kabir Khan I got the realisation that this director has used Salman Khan who is a Muslim in anti-Pakistan movie. Though the movie is also pro-Pakistan in the sense that the hero falls for a Pakistani girl, it got me thinking. What they or he is trying to do is that to show to the world and India (in its entirety Hindus and Muslims included), that leave the job of fighting Pakistan to us Indian Muslims. We the Indian Muslims will show the Indian Hindus and the world that we can deal with Pakistan as we are Indians and not Pakistanis.
Also by this method they are taking care of two things. That no Indian Hindi actor who is a non-Muslim can show this much level of violence against Pakistan and this area will be as "charted out" by them, i.e. their team. Anti-Pakistan sentiment will be nipped in the bud. I will say it is a master strategy.
Money and box office collections will follow. But these things need to be done.
They know and it is a fact that Indian Hindus think they are superior to Pakistan. So Indian Hindus think that they can win over Pakistan through "soft power" or without the use of violence in movies. But these guys Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan and Kabir Khan among others know the fact that a little bit of 'violence tadka' is required. And when violence is to be shown, by showing violence in their movies they are stopping beforehand violence being shown by Indian non-Muslim actors as well as violence in real life in a massive scale.
They are telling telling that this violence against Pakistan is "our area" and no one should enter here Indian non-Muslims included. They are negating the 'soft power' status of India.
This has been banned in Pakistan. Well I will say that this should be banned in India as well. Why not? If the Govt. can go ahead and ban movies like "Mohalla Assi" and "50 Shades of Gray" for flimsy reasons there is reason enough to ban this movie as it shows violence in tremendous scale and that too against a neighboring country.
I must make it clear that I have not watched Phantom till date and I definitely wont be watching it on the big screen. I will not contribute to its success. I know earlier such things used to happen. When I was in Hyderabad in 1996 I saw Muslim people visiting the movie "Raja Hindustani" in droves.
So I realised just as they vote 'en masse' similarly the Muslim people also watch movies 'en masse'. So they like a certain movie which shows the Urdu/Pashtun way of life they watch it more and more and make it a hit.
Now let us be back to Phantom and Saif Ali Khan. This movie is not a India vs Pakistan war. It is actually Saif Ali Khan war. Saif Ali Khan is fighting his own personal war. A war to keep himself relevant in the Hindi film industry. I know that his movie"Humshakals" bombed at the box office. So what will he do now. The social media and Twitter users lambasted him for Humshakals. So now he is trying to prove his mettle by showing that he can go after Pakistan. He has already ventured the area in Agent Vinod.
What I am trying to say is that Saif Ali Khan has nothing to lose by acting in a movie like Phantom. But if his movies start bombing in the box office, he would have lost tremendously.
Also, I had read somewhere years back that Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor have visited more than 150 locations right before and after their marriage. That count could have increased subsequently. It means no location in the world would be out of bound for them. No location would be too exotic for them. But the Saif may have realised that he just cannot get rid of that "Indian tag" wherever he goes.
"Once an Indian always and Indian". Thus how does he make himself relevant. Phantom is the answer.
Now let us get back to Phantom and Kabir Khan. This person Kabir Khan as I read in papers also is well travelled and has made documentaries in war-torn regions starting from Yugoslavia to Beirut.
Now we know that Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgun and Sunny Deol have acted in anti-Pakistan movies. During "Ek Tha Tiger" itself which was made by Kabir Khan I got the realisation that this director has used Salman Khan who is a Muslim in anti-Pakistan movie. Though the movie is also pro-Pakistan in the sense that the hero falls for a Pakistani girl, it got me thinking. What they or he is trying to do is that to show to the world and India (in its entirety Hindus and Muslims included), that leave the job of fighting Pakistan to us Indian Muslims. We the Indian Muslims will show the Indian Hindus and the world that we can deal with Pakistan as we are Indians and not Pakistanis.
Also by this method they are taking care of two things. That no Indian Hindi actor who is a non-Muslim can show this much level of violence against Pakistan and this area will be as "charted out" by them, i.e. their team. Anti-Pakistan sentiment will be nipped in the bud. I will say it is a master strategy.
Money and box office collections will follow. But these things need to be done.
They know and it is a fact that Indian Hindus think they are superior to Pakistan. So Indian Hindus think that they can win over Pakistan through "soft power" or without the use of violence in movies. But these guys Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan and Kabir Khan among others know the fact that a little bit of 'violence tadka' is required. And when violence is to be shown, by showing violence in their movies they are stopping beforehand violence being shown by Indian non-Muslim actors as well as violence in real life in a massive scale.
They are telling telling that this violence against Pakistan is "our area" and no one should enter here Indian non-Muslims included. They are negating the 'soft power' status of India.
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