MUMBAI – Succumbing to pressure from extremist groups, filmmaker Karan Johar might replace Fawad Khan with Saif Ali Khan using replacement technology to swap Fawad’s face with that of Saif Ali Khan’s in ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’.
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According to DNA, the filmmakers of the film are considering to use replacement technology to swap Fawad’s face with that of Saif Ali Khan’s. However, a source told the daily that it is too late for the replacement.
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“Karan’s film releases on Diwali, but because of the anti-Pakistani wave that is sweeping through India right now, he is facing a dual dilemma — it is too late to replace Fawad, but his female leads play Pakistani women. So what he is planning to do is tweak the script a bit and work it in such a way that they are no longer Pakistani citizens, but belong to another country,” a source told DNA.
Following the attack in Uri that killed 19 soldiers last month, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) had asked Pakistani artistes to leave India in 48 hours. The Indian Motion Producers Pictures Association (IMPPA) also banned Pakistani artists and technicians in Indian cinema for such time till the situation between India and Pakistan improves.
Karan Johar had initially tried to resist pressures to alter his film and had also defended Pakistani actors in India, however it seems that he too has succumbed to the pressures of extremist Hindu groups and will go to ridiculous extremes to pander to them.
