Vikram Bhatt opened up on the matter as well. He said artists shouldn’t be involved in such affairs because that would ‘trivialise’ the situation.
He explained, “We should concentrate on making sure that Pakistan is declared a terrorist state. That should be our effort. This (asking Pak actors to leave) is like trivialising the issue, whether artists or cricket should be allowed nor not…How does that matter? What matters is that people are dying, we have been constantly suffering… And the only thing we do is ban artists!”
He was asked whether the Pakistani actors that are working in India should take a stand against the Uri attack and he said, “I expect them to take a stand but can they do that? They are actors, creative people, not activists. I don’t think they can go back if they are going to talk against the terrorist outfits in Pakistan. They would surely fear for their lives, might as well become Indian citizens then. I think they would really fear for their safety.”
