"I chose not to be part of any film that could hurt the sentiments of either Pakistan or India”: Rajpal Yadav

[FearlessRoar]

Rajpal Yadav shares his thoughts on anti-Pakistan films during a podcast session with a Pakistani YouTuber:

“This is a very sensitive question. We make around 500 movies in a year—some for entertainment, some action—but in the end, all those working in it are human, they show emotions as an act. Also, it depends on the director. Among those 500 movies, only two are based on history or controversy, while the majority are made for entertainment. I once did a movie, The Hero, in which I played a similar kind of character. However, after maturing and achieving success, I chose not to be part of any film that could hurt the sentiments of either Pakistan or India.”

Bollywood can learn that films are meant for entertainment not for fueling hate. Rajpal Yadav’s mature stance shows how responsible art respects sentiments on both sides.

 

[Champ_Pal]

His choice. Films are made based on viewers trend or directors imagination.

Majority of Bollywood films have always been utter BS with unrealistic love and revenge trash. I remember Border was the first film i saw which was a patriotic film and it garnered huge success. After that, producers realized the huge market for it and since then many more war themed films have come with Pakistan being the protagonist. Some are biopics too.

These kind of war films are not for everyone. It is for a specific market. Whether working in such movies for actors or for audience who spend their hard earned money to watch a movie, it’s their choice.

 

[Bhaijaan]

We make trash movies anyway, who cares?

 

[Local.Dada]

Earlier Bollywood used to be have Pakistan artists or some Pakistan character or theme in every Hindi film because Pakistan is a huge market for Hindi films atleast from viewership standpoint.My Pakistani friends in US (some of them) have watched the most obscure Hindi films that I was not even aware got made. It made huge business sense


Once in a while some outstanding artist like Nusrat made sense but artists like Fawad Alam, Atif Aslam types are just dime a dozen in India.

They might be talented but there are 1000s of better artists standing in a line in every studio somewhere in Mumbai/Hyderabd trying to catch a break.

However with success of movies like Pushpa, KGF, RRR, Jawan, Bahubali, Animal, Dangal etc people realized that more
Money can be made by just telling stories from Indian sensibilities. People realized catering to Pak audicence is just a drop in the ocean based on the insane revenue these movies made.

All those RAW-ISi type love stories have been rejected by the Indian audience these days except for Pathan but success of that was due to SRK.

Forget from a moral/ethical standpoint, having a Pakistan theme doesn’t even make business sense anymore.

 

[FearlessRoar]

We make trash movies anyway, who cares?

Of course Netflix has become boring as no good Indian movies are coming out. Due to the BJP almost 30% of movies are focused on anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim narratives 60% show the idealized version of India inspired by the West and only 10% address the real problems of the country.

 

[Local.Dada]

Of course Netflix has become boring as no good Indian movies are coming out. Due to the BJP almost 30% of movies are focused on anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim narratives 60% show the idealized version of India inspired by the West and only 10% address the real problems of the country.

India makes 1000+ films every year. How many films do you know that have a Pakistani theme? Out of them how many are successful?

 

[FearlessRoar]

India makes 1000+ films every year. How many films do you know that have a Pakistani theme? Out of them how many are successful?

Between 2020 and 2025 several Bollywood films have been released that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

1. The Kashmir Files (2022)

2. The Kerala Story (2023)

3. Pathaan (2023)

4. IC 814: Kandahar Hijack (2024)

5. Fighter (2024)

6. Hamare Baarah (2024)

 

[Bhaijaan]

Between 2020 and 2025 several Bollywood films have been released that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

1. The Kashmir Files (2022)

2. The Kerala Story (2023)

3. Pathaan (2023)

4. IC 814: Kandahar Hijack (2024)

5. Fighter (2024)

6. Hamare Baarah (2024)

First two are a very specific genre of movies and cater to a certain audience. I for one haven’t watched either of the two. Especially Kashmir files from what I heard had some very extreme scenes that i cannot watch so i avoided it on purpose.

Pathan was a superhit but did they really show Pakistanis badly? I don’t think so.

Fighter was an awful film. A big flop.

I liked the Kandahar Hijack movie

 

[Local.Dada]

Between 2020 and 2025 several Bollywood films have been released that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

1. The Kashmir Files (2022)

2. The Kerala Story (2023)

3. Pathaan (2023)

4. IC 814: Kandahar Hijack (2024)

5. Fighter (2024)

6. Hamare Baarah (2024)

6 films over 3 yrs . Let’s assume India makes 1000+ movies a year, that is 6/3000 more or less.

I barely saw 3 films from that list. I switched off Pathan half way. And I believe only 3 of those films were successful.

Maybe you are the target audience for this very specific genre:doesn’t reflect Indian cinema.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Rajpal Yadav shares his thoughts on anti-Pakistan films during a podcast session with a Pakistani YouTuber:

“This is a very sensitive question. We make around 500 movies in a year—some for entertainment, some action—but in the end, all those working in it are human, they show emotions as an act. Also, it depends on the director. Among those 500 movies, only two are based on history or controversy, while the majority are made for entertainment. I once did a movie, The Hero, in which I played a similar kind of character. However, after maturing and achieving success, I chose not to be part of any film that could hurt the sentiments of either Pakistan or India.”

Bollywood can learn that films are meant for entertainment not for fueling hate. Rajpal Yadav’s mature stance shows how responsible art respects sentiments on both sides.

Great actor, wise words

 

[FearlessRoar]

6 films over 3 yrs . Let’s assume India makes 1000+ movies a year, that is 6/3000 more or less.

I barely saw 3 films from that list. I switched off Pathan half way. And I believe only 3 of those films were successful.

Maybe you are the target audience for this very specific genre:doesn’t reflect Indian cinema.

There are a few more that were released recently like Sooryavanshi, Gadar 2, Singham Again, Sky Force and the more you search the more movies you'll find that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Trashy people like trash content.

These Indians wake up saying Pakistan, their last word before sleep is Pakistan and their dreams are of Pakistan.

When they have this level of mental illness then of course their movie directors will keep feeding them with this rubbish.

 

[sweep_shot]

Sensible comment from Rajpal.

This type of maturity is missing from many Indians (BJP ones particularly).

 

[Bhaijaan]

There are a few more that were released recently like Sooryavanshi, Gadar 2, Singham Again, Sky Force and the more you search the more movies you'll find that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

You have to realize at some point that even though portrayal of Pakistani villains in some of the movies might have been cringe.

You cannot just expect that an entire movie industry whose job is to bring all these stories to the big screen to just ignore your dictatorships/as like that.

Right now we have BJP government and a lot of movies have been made where they didn’t even spare Gandhi, Nehru, Indira etc and showed them in a negative / less heroic way.

Bad acting and bad story telling is the bigger problem with our movie industry.

 

[Local.Dada]

There are a few more that were released recently like Sooryavanshi, Gadar 2, Singham Again, Sky Force and the more you search the more movies you'll find that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

As an Indian I don’t care to watch most of these movies and chose better content. What’s stopping you?

Producers are spending the money, most of these films bombed at the box office so eventually they will stop. If 1-2 makes money good for them, nothing in stake for you or me.

You have power of the remote control. Now if you are going to theatres to watch this than I don’t have to tell you whose fault it is. Apart from some segue into other India bashing it is useless to pin point a sub-genre of a sub-genre , as I said look at the top Indian grossers of all time, I don’t think a single film mentions Pakistan.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Between 2020 and 2025 several Bollywood films have been released that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

1. The Kashmir Files (2022)

2. The Kerala Story (2023)

3. Pathaan (2023)

4. IC 814: Kandahar Hijack (2024)

5. Fighter (2024)

6. Hamare Baarah (2024)

And then we say we are not obsessed with Pakistan.

 

[Local.Dada]

@FearlessRoar bro the larger point is 20 Pak bashing films are made 1-2 succeed

Just like 1 comedy film might be a hit for every 100, 2-3 action films out of 100, 1 love story out of 1000 etc.

The bigger picture is maybe something about the screenplay, story, performances, music were liked by the audience not just Pak bashing in the film as I said not every film caters to Pakistan.

Thinking about these kind of pointless stuff and getting triggered just makes things more toxic. That’s my pov

 

[Rajdeep]

Between 2020 and 2025 several Bollywood films have been released that are anti-Pakistan and anti-Muslim.

1. The Kashmir Files (2022)

2. The Kerala Story (2023)

3. Pathaan (2023)

4. IC 814: Kandahar Hijack (2024)

5. Fighter (2024)

6. Hamare Baarah (2024)

Kashmir files, Kerala Files and IC 814 are based on true stories..so what harm in showing them? I have not seen other films, so can't comment.

For example, it is truth na than Pakistani terrorists hijacked IC 814 and negotiated with Indian govt to release Masood Azhar. Same Masood Azhar went onto attack Indian parliament couple of years later.

So you can do stuff but if filmaker shows it in a movie they become anti Pakistan and Islamophobe, is it?

LOL...apne ghar ko thik kar lo pehle rather than shooting the messanger.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

You have to realize at some point that even though portrayal of Pakistani villains in some of the movies might have been cringe.

That is part of the problem. India is giving them too much importance and filling their population with this obsessive mentality. As a rising superpower, they should be above this.

When you move out of a slum, you don't move into a nice neighbourhood and keep talking about the old days in the slum. You go say howdy to the neighbour and hope to exchange pleasantries about the golf club and such.

 

[Bhaijaan]

That is part of the problem. Pakistan military is just a third world military, probably not that different from many other in the third world. India is giving them too much importance and filling their population with this obsessive mentality. As a rising superpower, they should be above this.

When you move out of a slum, you don't move into a nice neighbourhood and keep talking about the old days in the slum. You go say howdy to the neighbour and hope to exchange pleasantries about the golf club and such.

Pakistanis make good villains.

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Pakistanis make good villains.

Not to anybody else. Only India are giving them such status.

 

[Bhaag Viru Bhaag]

Pakistanis make good villains.

 

[Bhaijaan]

Pakistanis make good villains.

Mod bhais, you shouldn’t edit posts like that to change the entire meaning of the comment.

The original post said Pakistani army generals make good villains with great on screen presence.

 

[Slim]

Bollywood seems to be dying, i havent heard of a good movie in a long while. The last two i watched were pathan and 12th fail. Both were decent movies.