Pakistan opens doors to Indian actors
ISLAMABAD/MUMBAI: Five months after Pakistan gave Bollywood a visa to screen its movies, Islamabad has taken off its books a hostile clause that barred Indian actors from featuring in films made there.
"The 'notorious' Paragraph 5, a major obstacle for Pakistani filmmakers wanting to hire Indian actors, is no more," Saeed Rizvi, chairman of the Pakistan Film Producers Association (PFPA), told a Pakistani newspaper. "This clause was a legislative order, which stopped filmmakers from proceeding towards Indian frontiers."
Rizvi was referring to four amendments in the Censorship of Film Rules, which removed the India-specific restriction of Paragraph 5. A Pakistani filmmaker is supposed to submit Form B to seek censorship clearance, which includes Clause 5. When enforced, the amended law would make the exchange reciprocal among the film industries of the two countries that were one till India's partition in 1947.
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