MUMBAI: India and Pakistan’s heightened tensions over Kashmir have spread to movie theatres with Bollywood shunning artists from its neighbor and Islamabad suspending Indian films in a series of tit-for-tat moves. Hindu nationalists have been fuelling India’s crackdown with threats of violence while Pakistan’s media regulators have gone all out and banned all Indian content from television and radio networks. “It was one of the saddest things I’ve seen because he has so much money at stake. He has to see that he doesn’t lose not only money but his business,” Benegal, 81, said of Johar’s statement. Indian authorities assured producers this week that no one would be allowed to disrupt screenings as police arrested 12 MNS workers for shouting slogans outside a south Mumbai cinema.

Source: Manila Times October 21, 2016 08:37 UTC