Tuesday, December 30, 2025
ADVT 
Bollywood

Pakistani Actor-Singer Ali Zafar Felt 'Really Conscious' While Working In India

IANS, 07 Jul, 2017 02:35 PM
  • Pakistani Actor-Singer Ali Zafar Felt 'Really Conscious' While Working In India
Ali Zafar, famous for his roles in movies like 'Tere Bin Laden' and 'Kill Dill,' has revealed that he felt really conscious while working India as things between both the counties are quite uncertain.
 
According to the Dawn, the 37-year-old singer-turned-actor felt really conscious while working in India for the fact that it is not his home country and believes that the whole scenario changed after the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
 
He said, "While I was working in India I was very conscious of the fact that this is not my country. Luckily, I only had two days of filming left. The Indian media instantly started thrashing Pakistan but on the ground level nothing changed, things were still pretty normal for me."
 
The actor believed that this fallout was completely different from what happened last year after the Uri attacks.
 
He also revealed that his brother Danyal was in India, when the Uri attack happened and one did not know how and when it was escalated to that level, where Pakistani actors were banned from working in India.
 
"My own brother Danyal was there. He'd been there for two months prepping for a film with Yash Raj. He was being launched by them. He was going to start filming in a week. My film Dear Zindagi was about to come out. Initially when this happened, one didn't know what to make of it and when it was escalated to that level, I sat back and pondered [over it]," noted Zafar.
 
Adding, "I realised that the difference between now and then, because something much bigger had happened before, was the presence and emergence of social media."
 
At that moment, the 'Kill dill' star felt that there was no point thinking and wasting your energy in trying to figure out what happened.
 
For the unversed, Pakistani artists. including Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan. were forced to leave India after the attacks at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir.

MORE Bollywood ARTICLES

Pakeezah Actress Geeta Kapoor Allegedly Abandoned By Son, Helped By Ashoke Pandit

Pakeezah Actress Geeta Kapoor Allegedly Abandoned By Son, Helped By Ashoke Pandit
Ashoke Pandit, who paid Geeta Kapoor's hospital bills after her son allegedly abandoned her, said: "Paying the bills was not a big thing, really. I saw my mother in her"

Pakeezah Actress Geeta Kapoor Allegedly Abandoned By Son, Helped By Ashoke Pandit

Actress Shweta Tiwari Becomes A Victim Of Death Hoax

Actress Shweta Tiwari Becomes A Victim Of Death Hoax
TV star Shweta Tiwari trended all of Saturday morning after a certain fan page on Facebook, bearing the name of Shweta's colleague Sakshi Tanwar, posted a message of condolence for the actress. 

Actress Shweta Tiwari Becomes A Victim Of Death Hoax

Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya Back On Twitter With A New Account And A Video, Suspended Again

Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya Back On Twitter With A New Account And A Video, Suspended Again
Twitter on May 23 suspended Abhijeet's account over sexist and offensive remarks targeted at some women users, particularly JNU student-activist Shehla Rashid.

Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya Back On Twitter With A New Account And A Video, Suspended Again

I'm Not A Very Communicative Person: Aamir Khan

After breaking records at the Chinese box office with his latest Bollywood offering "Dangal", he became the most followed Indian on Weibo this month.

I'm Not A Very Communicative Person: Aamir Khan

Irrfan Khan Makes Instagram Debut And It's Not About Pouts And Selfies, See Photo

Irrfan Khan Makes Instagram Debut And It's Not About Pouts And Selfies, See Photo
Internationally acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan on Monday made his debut on Instagram and shared throwback photographs in which he has recreated some iconic poses from Bollywood.

Irrfan Khan Makes Instagram Debut And It's Not About Pouts And Selfies, See Photo

She's A Bit Of A Bitch: Tillotama Was Told For 'Hindi Medium' Role

She's A Bit Of A Bitch: Tillotama Was Told For 'Hindi Medium' Role
As the snobbish education consultant in "Hindi Medium", actress Tillotama Shome is treading new grounds in Hindi cinema. She says when she was introduced to the character, it was described as a "bit of a bitch".

She's A Bit Of A Bitch: Tillotama Was Told For 'Hindi Medium' Role