Kissing on the screen of the Pakistani Cinemas isnt Halal at all, let alone a kiss between a Pakistani actress and an Indian actor! News: Pakistan’s highest paid actress, Humaima Malik, is about to have her Bollywood debut with the $6 million crime comedy film Raja Natwarlal. It’s already caused a stir before it’s 29th August global release date because of passionate kissing scenes involving Humaima with Muslim Bollywood heartthrob Emraan Hashmi. Working in India may have become a norm for Pakistani actors but breaking social taboos with an on screen lip lock often elicits a negative reaction in the overwhelmingly conservative Pakistani media. It’s not the first time that Pakistani actors working in India have courted scandal in Pakistani media. Both Meera and Veena Malik were slammed by the media in Pakistan for adopting “vulgarity” to promote their own brand identity. Veena, in particular, felt she had to ‘repent’ and has now given up acting after a highly publicised religious experience at Makkah. According to Fifi Haroon, who recently wrote for the BBC about the Pakistani-Indian kiss: “the backlash against “our girls” going across the border to seek fame and fortune has always been extreme in conservative Pakistan. People feel that kissing the enemy and colluding with Indian men’s magazines is simply not on - not halal. In fact, until recently, kisses were invariably censored in all films shown in Pakistani cinemas.” Watch the trailer here:
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:45:50 +0000
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