New Delhi: Pakistani actor Fawad Khan recently spoke with a channel about his presence in Bollywood, PR and the industry politics in every region. Speaking about what his PR would get angry about, Fawad Khan spoke on Ahmad Ali Butt's YouTube channel, when the host asked, "You’ve made a lot of friends in India, but it came to the point where you were being compared to the big names. Did it p**s off a lot of the big dogs? Ali Zafar, Mahira Khan and you were being offered lead roles in one of the biggest industries in the world. Do you think it happened too soon for you in order to become a threat?”
When the actor was asked if his presence in the Hindi film industry was seen as a threat, Fawad said that he had often got involved in arguments with his PR about how 'visible' he needed to be.
"That’s such a heavy question. I got a lot of love from India. But look, every industry has its politics. In Pakistan as well. But it’s easier to combat the politics in your industry because it is your own. I’m not saying it (the industry politics) is unheard of, I’m sure it happens everywhere. But there was one thing, if I talk about threat or no threat – I had PRs, and they used to get angry at this… I was like, ‘I need you to take out my name, not put it in there’. I would ask my PR, 'You are here just to remove me from places, not put me'. My manager, who is my good friend now, would say, ‘No, You don’t know how the world works’. I said, 'I don't want to do Instagram, Facebook, I don't want to do all these things.' But she would say 'That is the norm!'”
Fawad Khan and numerous Pakistani actors stopped working in India after the 2016 Uri attacks. The Bombay High Court lifted a ban on Pakistani artistes in India last year and that change is gradually happening.
Off late, British-Pakistani actor Alyy Khan was seen in a key role on the Disney+Hotstar series 'The Trial 'and then 'The Archies'.