The cricket world has been left poorer ever since India and Pakistan drastically cut down their engagements on the fi eld after 2008 , because of Islamabad ’ s alleged support for cross-border terrorism . In the wake of the Uri attack on September 18 , will cinema , television and music be permanently damaged too ? Putting it another way : Is Fawad Khan ’ s career in India fi n- ished before even properly taking off ? The attack on the Army camp in Uri has prompted Subhash Chandra , the head of the Zee network , to declare that he will stop airing Pakistani serials on his popular channel Zindagi , which has introduced Indians to several Pakistani actors , including Fawad Khan . The demand that Pakistani talent should not be allowed to work in India has found support beyond familiar rabble-rousers such as the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the Shiv Sena . It wasn ’ t Times Now ' s Arnab Goswami who wanted Fawad Khan to Quit India , but CNN News18 anchor Bhupendra Chaubey . Doubts are being raised about the fate of upcoming fi lms such as Ae Dil Hai Mushkil , which stars Khan in a small role , and movies still under production such as Mom , starring Sridevi and Sajal Aly , and an untitled Yash Raj Films project featuring Danyal Zafar , the brother of the singer and actor Ali Zafar . Over the years , Pakistani actors and singers have managed to escape the ultra-nationalist heat that has inevitably followed major terrorist strikes . They would lie low , ride out the calls for retribution and be back on the screen in a matter of weeks . That was before the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre , the proliferation of troll armies on social networking sites , the war-mongering on TV channels like Times Now and CNN News 18 , and the polarisation of the movie industry into liberals , centrists , and proud ultra-rightwingers like the singer Abhijeet and actor Anupam Kher . Partition saw a fl ight of talent from India to Pakistan and vice versa . Indian fi lms were still being released in Pakistan after 1947 . But by the mid- 1950s , severe restrictions began to be placed on their distribution to boost the growth of the local fi lm industry , known as Lollywood because it was headquartered in Lahore . “ The restriction on Bombay fi lms opened a new free and non-competitive market for local productions ,” writes Mushtaq Gazdar in Pakistani Cinema 1947-1997 . “ 1956 proved to be the most fruitful year of the fi rst decade in terms of box-offi ce returns from indigenous cinema .” That year , two Indian actresses appeared in Pakistani productions : Sheila Ramani , of Taxi Driver fame ,
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and Meena Shorey , who had charmed audiences in the song Lara Lappa in the 1949 movie Ek Thi Ladki . Ramani played the lead in Anokhi , produced by her uncle Sheikh Latif , and the music was composed by Bengali composer Timir Baran , “ who came from India for this purpose ”, writes Gazdar . Ramani returned to India and faded out after a few fi lms . Meena Shorey ( born Kurshid Jehan ) was the heroine of the Pakistani production Miss 56 , directed by JC Anand . She was accompanied by her husband , Ek Thi Ladki director Roop K Shorey , who had to return to India after Meena Shorey decided to stay on in Lahore . Many Indian directors and actors , including Zia Sarhady and Noor Jehan , migrated to Pakistan between the ’ 40s and the ‘ 60s and contributed to the consolidation of the indigenous industry . Pakistani cinema had its own star system and musical talent , but on occasion , it borrowed Indian singers such as Hemant Kumar and Sandhya Mukherjee for Humsafar ( 1960 ). The Merchant-Ivory Production Bombay Talkie ( 1970 ), about a married fi lm star ’ s dalliance with an American writer , stars one of the best-known Pakistani actors and voice artists . Zia Mohyeddin had appeared in several plays in London , including as Dr Aziz in a BBC adaptation of EM Forster ’ s A Passage to India in 1965 . In Bombay Talkie , Mohyeddin plays Hari , a frustrated writer who is love with the American writer , played by Jennifer Kendal . Over the years , big-name Pakistani actors made appearances in Hindi fi lms , including Nadeem in Ambrish Sangal ’ s Door Desh ( 1983 ) and Talat Hussain in Sawan Kumar Tak ’ s melodrama Souten Ki Beti ( 1989 ). Zeba Bakhtiar , the daughter of former Pakistan Law Minister Yahya Bakhtiar , played the lead along with Rishi Kapoor in Raj Kapoor ’ s cross-border romance Henna ( 1991 ). The story of a Kashmiri ( Rishi Kapoor ) who strays across the Line of Control after a bout of amnesia was inspired by the Pakistani classic Lakhon Mein Eik . Directed by Raza Amir in 1967 , and based on a story by Zia Sarhadi , Heena has dialogue by legendary Pakistani television writer and playwright Haseena Moin , who wrote such iconic TV shows as Dhoop Kinare and Tanhaiyaan . Bakhtiar was briefl y married to singer and composer Adnan Sami , who became an Indian citizen in January 2016 . Among the Pakistani actors who have enlivened Hindi cinema through standout cameos is Salman Shahid . He plays a Taliban fi ghter in Kabul Express ( 2006 ) but is better known as Mushtaq Bhai , the hoodlum who tries in vain to tame Iftikhar ( Naseeruddin Shah ) and