Adil Najam
This picture was taken in Karachi earlier today (7 August, 2006) by atrophying and posted on Flickr.com.
Even if its was done inadvertently, I find it a very timely and appropriate billboard. Especially at this precarious time in India-Pakistan relations – note the silliness of recalled diplomats – when extremists on both sides seem to be succeeding in scuttling what had been a reasonably good process of rebuilding confidence.
Anyhow, my dear subcontinentals, please hold your sun-baked passions and enjoy the picture. Whether it was intended as such or not, I will take this as a neighborly greeting from one neighbor to another.
On behalf of all us Pakistanis, I thank you dear Amitabh. And I wish you, and all Indians everywhere, a wonderful Independence Day of your own on August 15.
I, being AS Edhi, am all for friendship between people of all religions and nationalities. Furthermore, I strongly believe that 99% of wars and other feuds are created by people in power for their own personal ends and it is the common man who always gets trampled in the process.
That being said (come on you knew this was coming), I absolutely ABHOR that billboard; it shudders me to think that the company would have the audacity to do that! This billboard is just a reflection on how MESMERIZED the illiterate and ignorant amongst us are by Bollywood. If any of you have been in places like villages in interior Sindh or in other similar places, you probably know that Indian movies contribute greatly to keeping our under-privileged brethren ignorant.
Its really good start but both nations need more efforts to put in their dialogues to have better & strong relations. Its good thing that actors from accross the borders are freely coming & making relations but is their any response from our neighbour Govt. to have positive relation? Anyways apart from politics its really a gift.
Mohtaram Sattar Sahib. I grew up in a small village in Saraiki area on Punjab-Sindh border. My father was an elementary schoolmaster. We were not rich. I was lucky to go to university in Bahawalpur, then UK, now back in Pakistan. I never know that my family and my was poor becasue of Indian films. Thank you for telling me that. And also that I am ignorant. I always thought that we were poor because of the city ‘baoo sahibs’ did not care about us, the zamidaars were greedy, the politicians were corrupt, and the generals and Army people kept taking away our lands as allotments. I must be wrong. Thank you for letting me know that all the poverty and ignorance in my area is because of Indian films.
It’s been taken off the billboards in karachi now..
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1046670
Mohsin was actually a REALLY bad actor. That’s why his daal nahiN galli.
Yes, you are right. It IS commerical interests. That’s usually the whole point of ccommercial ventures. And what is wrong with that?