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Inflated Nationalism : Banning Film/Banning free-culture/ Damaging to PM Modi’s “MAKE-IN-INDIA”

By Satya Prakash

Film has always been a soft target to ban it or to attack upon it to galvanize and arouse cultural Nationalism .Let the film release, the citizens of country will take decision whether or not they will go to the theatres on 28 th of october 2016 for watching Karan Johar’s film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

Pakistan being supported by Chinese does not suggest Government of India to ban import and export of the necessary things bilaterally. India exports its many things to China. However, social media is flooded with a request statement of our PM Modi not to buy the Chinese items in Indian Market. Such a request is ridiculous and dangerous for Indian businessmen who import Chinese-made-things from China. Who will compensate the loss of manifold of million Dollar. Is the whopping amount of businessmen a miniscule money for inflated nationalists for showing jingoism?

Prime Minister Modi must ban the business treaty between India and China that helps Pakistan’s nefarious design of terrorism attack on India. Terrorism across the border is heinous and it must be deplored. Government of India’s request is going to give a big jolt to Indian businessmen on the eve of Festival of lights and so is to huge financial and cinematic cultural loss to producer and director Mr.Karan Johar who had signed two Cine-artists from Pakistan, much before the recent attack of Pak-supported-Terrorists, that has embittered its relation with India.Indian soldiers who lost their lives, cannot be irreparable. This fatal activity is, really, deplorable.

Banning of screening of Mr.Johar’s film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” by Association of Distributors & Exhibitors will leave a cultural and cine-business malaise in the Art Field of country. Government of India must intervene and calm down the bigot-jingoism of few people at least three states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa being governed by BJP.

PM Modi must request these distributors to run the film in theatres to flow free culture and the business of cinema. Banning the film is against PM’s vocal programme “Make-in-India”.

The film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” has Indian actors like Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Anushka Sharma as well as Pak-artists like Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan.
A nation cannot settle its score with another nation by banning one’s artist’s performance into another’s. Such prevention of cultural flow is not healthy for the revival of the relation between the two nations in the days to come in. Only flow of culture sweetens the dead bridge into cultural bridge of two countries. Whipping patriotism or nationalism by killing the cultural bridge does not benefit any country.

If Film Makers like Anurag Kashyap and others question the guardian of the country, the social media gets flooded with abusive attacks upon them, ordering to seek apology from PM Modi. Anurag Kashyap has surfaced the things before PM, seeking his sorry too to him if PM feels offended. Although inflated jingoism is not sparing the film maker Mr.Anurag. All the theatres of country barring three-four BJP-ruled states do not have much brouhaha to release the film. The timid distributers and exhibiters have taken a patriotic position in lieu of business position.

Our Prime Minister Modi must appeal his governments of four states, distributors and passionate patriotic people to allow Karan-Johar’s high-budgeted film for the sake of free cultural flow within and across the border and free business too instead of appealing citizens of India to be away from the Chinese items in Indian Markets run by Indian businessmen who have invested a whopping amount of money to run their business.

As a Film Maker, I appeal my PM Modi to expedite the process of releasing the film as soon as possible.