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What an 18-year-old Shah Rukh Khan sports movie says about India today
['Ali M. Latifi']
IRIN - Pakistan
For weeks now, the Indian media, both traditional and online, has exploded with vitriolic anti-Pakistani, anti-Muslim, and anti-Kashmiri rhetoric.
A film adaptation of India’s “swift and strategic response” to the Pahalgam attack was recently announced, but that movie – which is months, if not years off – seems like an unnecessary indulgence.
India), in which Shah Rukh Khan stars as a disgraced former captain of India’s national hockey team.
Especially after hearing he is from the state where Modi announced the perpetrators of the Pahalgam attack would be punished “beyond their imagination” only two days after the killings.
These two clips alone – there are many more like them – show how the Indian media has gone much further today than the caricature from the 2007 film to rile up decades-old tensions.
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