Pakistan lifts ban on Indian movies - first movie will be Nawazuddin Siddiqui's "Freaky Ali"

Pakistani cinemas have finally lifted the ban on Bollywood movies that had been imposed after relations between New Delhi and Islamabad fell to a new low following tensions on the border and terrorist attacks. It is now revealed that the cinemas will start screening Indian movies and the first movie to be screened will be actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui's "Freaky Ali".
This has been reported in thestatesman.com dated 18 December 2016.

It may be recalled that the managements of Pakistani cinemas had, on September 30, announced indefinite suspension of screening of all Bollywood movies. It was in protest against the ban of Pakistani artists in India. These artists were banned in India after an attack on an Army base in Uri town of Jammu and Kashmir in which at least 19 soldiers were killed.
It is understood that the cinema owners will first screen movies that could not be screened due to the suspension of Indian content. The decision to lifted the suspension was as a cinema guild. It has been taken to extend support to the Indian cinemas and expect the gesture to be reciprocated.
Bollywood is popular in Pakistan, and the self-imposed suspension is believed to have led to a dramatic loss of revenue. Indian movies had made a comeback to Pakistani cinema houses in 2008 following a 43-year long hiatus after a ban imposed during the 1965 war.


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