Karachi: Bajrangi
Bhaijaan-famed director Kabir Khan was ‘heckled’ at the Quaid-e-Azam
International Airport in Pakistan on Wednesday by a number of people present in
the airport lounge. The protesters confronted the 43-year-old director claiming
that he showed ‘Pakistan in a bad light’ in his latest film Phantom.
The director went to Pakistan to attend a marketing seminar at Lahore,
reports said.
Kabir, famous for his ‘firm belief in India's
secular fabric’ to rejoice the friendship between Indian and Pakistan, was
attacked by a shoe-wield protester wearing black salwar-kameez. However, the
director did not respond to any of the comments, sources said.
Reports are that the angry protesters were heard
saying Pakistan Zindabad and
repeating anti-India slogans. Also, they had asked Kabir to make film on the
activities of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) activities in Pakistan. “You
people send Jhadav and kill hundreds here. Why don’t you make a movie about it?”
asked a protester who referred to RAW official Kulbhushan Jhadav who has been
arrested in Pakistan.
Kabir’s film Phantom
based on a storyline of the Mumbai attacks had Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif
in the lead role. A story about a retired military officer, who is in a mission
to kill the Mumbai attack mastermind, was banned in Pakistan claiming that the
film showed a negative picture of Pakistan.
However, Bajrangi
Bhaijaan starring Salman Khan made ‘roaring business’ in Pakistan and had
promoted Indo-Pak ties in its plot. Kabir Khan denied commenting anything about
the incident. He later took to Twitter: “To media on both sides: 12 screaming
lunatics with a mobile phone camera is not news. Please don’t give them the
attention they want. Ignore.”
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