The recent attack on Pathankot air base and the attack on
Indian army at Uri have brought into focus once again on the Pakistani
nationals coming to work in India on work visas. The focus has again shifted thanks
or otherwise to the MNS, on Pakistani actors who recently worked in some big
budget Indian movies and must have been paid crores of rupees for their work.
The MNS demanded that they return to their own country and as the newspaper reports
suggest that they have left the country whether on their own or after the
threat is not clear. The film industry is again up in the arms with demanding that
whether stopping them from working and promoting the films in India will stop
terrorist activities carried out by Pakistan? They have even quoted the most
misused expression of freedom of expression and that the exchange of artists
will promote development of better relations and peaceful atmosphere with Pakistan
and promotes peace with them.
Have these persons ever sat down and thought that when we
have enough good talent in India and there are a number of unemployed artists
in India itself then what is the requirement of bringing these artists from
Pakistan? Are our own new artists not good enough or they charging exorbitant
fees? Both these arguments are silly and show their lack of knowledge about the
present situation in the country. But what one can expect from these highly
paid actors who keep making stupid comments only to regret them later. Probably
they think their acting stardom gives them a right to comment on everything and
they can get away with it due to their large fan following. Please use our own people or train them so
that they can come up to your expectations and help in skill development and
poverty elevation in India rather than bringing the foreign artists especially
from Pakistan. Stopping Pakistani artists from giving work visa may or may not
actually stop terrorism but will definitely cut down the funding to those who
are behind all this terrorist activities in Pakistan and every small step in
choking them counts. Every small step will definitely help the country in a big
way in fighting against these activities and it is these small contributions
from every citizen that counts.
Moreover, these actors and artists come to India on work
visa and earn crores of rupees which go out of India rather than remain in our
own economy. They go back to Pakistan and contribute in the name of charity to
those organizations, whether willingly or due to extortion or otherwise, whether
by choice or ignorance, who carry out terrorist activities in Indian soil
against our own people. They inadvertently contribute to running and funding of
these terrorist organization., their training camps, arms and ammunition and
pay for these so called misguided jihadis. I am not saying that these artists
are jihadis or they are terrorist sympathizers but they do it because they and
their families have to live in a country where terror is a state sponsored
subject and hence they may not have a choice and even if they did have, they
have chosen to keep quiet about them and remain an anonymous figure rather than
protest against them. Please stop funding these terrorist organizations
inadvertently in name of exchange of culture and artists and donate some money
to the funding of education, livelihood and work for the families and children
of the soldiers killed by these Pakistani soldiers and terrorist organizations,
if you are a true patriot.
It is a well known
fact that an actor’s son will become an actor or a director’s son will choose a
career in the bollywood only. In India, 99% of the past or present politicians
or their family members have never served in armed forces, what to talk of
seeing actual combat.. Consider this against the Americans, where majority of
the senators and even the Presidents have served in armed forces and seen
combat and even Prince of England did a tour of Afghanistan as a helicopter
pilot in combat conditions. I have not come across a single person who is from
this industry or politics whose children are working in Armed forces and have
seen combat.
These Pakistani actors and artists did not even condemn the
attack on Pathankot and Uri even when they were requested by Dr. Subash Chandra
,Chairman of Essel group and Anupam Kher to do it without naming Pakistan and
this shows their mindset and attitude. Dr Subash Chandra even stopped the telecast
of Pakistani serials in his channel Zindagi even though he incurred a loss of
about Rs.60 crores. Wish our bollywood actors and directors showed the same
courage. We welcome them with open arms, respect them and love them but what
they give us back is these terrorists who kill our own people.
Pakistan does not permit Indian artists to come and work in
Pakistan. All these exchanges should be based on reciprocal basis and not
loaded on one side. The number as well as the payment for performance has to be
equal otherwise it would be better to let them work in Pakistan only. We want
peace with Pakistan but not at the cost of our own money being used to kill our
own soldiers. We would first like to see that every Indian has a job, food to
eat, water to drink and lives a respectable life rather than improving the
lives of Pakistani at the cost of our own citizens.
Grant visa to them by all means to come to visit India, meet
their relatives, attend marriages or even to come to India for treatment in
Indian hospitals and doctors as long as they spend their own money in India
which help boost to a very small degree our own economy but not our own money
going out of India and being used against us by granting them work visa. Stop issuing work visa to the Pakistani
nationals is my sincere request to the Govt and to the film industry.
