Bollywood director Kabir Khan, who was in Karachi to attend a marketing seminar, had to face shoe-wielding angry protesters at Karachi airport on his departure on Wednesday.
The ‘Phantom’ director, who arrived at Karachi airport to leave for Lahore, was surrounded by protesters who not only shouted anti-India and pro-Pakistan slogans but also questioned Kabir Khan on why he did not make similar movies about the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
“Muslims are massacred in India but you don’t make films on it, why don’t you make movies on RAW,” one male voice is heard saying in the footage, amid chants of “Pakistan Zindabad” and “Shame Shame.”
However, Kabir Khan remained calm and maintained silence as he headed to the airport’s arrival lounge.
He is director of several controversial films against Pakistan, many of which are banned in the country.
“You people send Jhadav and kill hundreds here, why don’t you make a movie about it,” a protester asked the Phantom director.
Another shoe-wielding protester chased Khan to the departure lounge warning the director about “Indian conspiracies against Pakistan army”.
Kabir whose ”Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ received an overwhelmingly warm response in Pakistan, came under fire for his earlier ventures ‘Phantom’ and ‘Kabul Express’ for its anti-Pakistan content and a Saif Ali Khan dialogue ‘Ghar me Ghuss Ke Marenge‘.
Khan is also the director of “Phantom”, which revolves around the tragic November 26 Mumbai attacks at the Taj Hotel. The film, which was based on the novel ‘Mumbai Avengers’ by S. Hussain Zaidi, was banned by the Lahore High Court over Hafiz Saeed’s petition..
Kabir, during the MARCON 2016 seminar in Karachi, said he was a firm believer in the secular fabric of India and in friendship between India and Pakistan, which led to the making of Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Furthermore, he was quoted as saying by a local newspaper that he wanted to make a film in Pakistan.
