Amitabh Bachchan hopes for Indo-Pak peace

While Modi's government has been propagating hate against Pakistan, artists across the borders have been hoping for cordial relations between the countries. Many stars among Amitabh Bachchan are vouching for Indo-Pak peace. The Bollywood megastar recently penned a letter where he speaks about how the countrymen on both sides of the border hope for better political scenarios.

The Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham star, in the piece published in The Indian Express, wrote about the impact of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli's hug for Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Rizwan during the recent T20 world cup. 

“For, the stories we tell can often become larger than us, and they can skip lightly across borders, sometimes riding on cricket, sometimes through film. Sometimes they nestle in the warmth of the hug that went viral, that India’s captain Virat Kohli gave to Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam, after the men in green defeated the men in blue in the first game of the T20 World Cup that concluded in Dubai recently,” he wrote.

The actor also mentioned the power of films, including Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan. “Sometimes they revel in the smashing box office success, in India and also in Pakistan, of the 2015 Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan, a cross-border tale about empathy and compassion, an Indian man’s struggle to reunite a Pakistani child with her family.”

Dia Mirza reacted to Bachchan's piece and wrote, "A truly wonderful piece by Amitabh Bachchan. 'Freedom from fear means that we are more at ease with our neighbours, and also with ourselves.’”

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