She took to her Instagram handle and shared filmmaker Kabir Khan’s views on the power shift in Afghanistan. The actress wrote, “Feeling sad for artists in Afghanistan”. Have a look:
Kabir Khan who started his career with documentary in Afghanistan ‘Kabul Express’, told ETimes, “I have worked there for years on documentaries and films and I have many friends in Afghanistan. Some have relocated over the years, but others are still there. They’ve reached out to us in desperate pleas saying, ‘Can you help us?’. I have been feeling heartbroken ever since they have reached out to me, because I have not been able to do anything from here. The Indian Embassy over there in Kabul has shut down. Even though I know some people in the ministry of External Affairs, no one can do anything, because the embassy is shut, the airspace is shut, it’s becoming a desperate situation and we are just sitting and watching the news and trying to imagine what they must be going through.”
“It’s hard to imagine the kind of fear they must be feeling. These are people who are in the film industry, they are actors, and they are going to be targeted by the Taliban. The last time the Taliban was in power, the films were banned, photography was banned. After the Taliban left, Afghan citizens were making a lot of films. One of my dearest friends Siddique Barmaar made this beautiful film called ‘Osama’, which was even nominated for the Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. They would come to India and meet us and their cinema was back on track. They used to talk about collaborating with us, taking some technology from here. But now, with the Taliban coming back, I have no idea what is going to happen to the film industry. I don’t think they will be allowed to survive” he added.
