Cinemas in Karachi have stopped the screening of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Pink.
Major cinema houses in Pakistan have stopped screening Indian films following the surgical strikes by India on terror launch pads across the Line of Control.
Lahore's Super Cinema, the country's largest cinema house, first announced in a Facebook post that they will stop the screening of all Indian films in their theatre after which Karachi's Nueplex Cinemas followed suit.
It also called on the government to ensure that sale of DVDs of all Indian films was stopped.
Nueplex and Atrium cinemas in Karachi have ceased the screening of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Pink.
Atrium cinemas' website says that the management has decided against the screening of Indian films.
Nadeem Mandviwalla, a well-known film exhibitor, distributor and owner of the Atrium cinemas in Lahore and Karachi, said the boycott would be unanimous until the situation improved.
Saleem Khan at the famous Capri cinema in Karachi said they had stopped showing Indian films since last night. Pakistan's film industry fears it may suffer a 70 per cent business loss if Indo-Pak ties worsen and Bollywood films are banned in the country. The fear among the industry people has been growing as they feel if the situation does not improve there would be calls to ban Indian films eventually.
The Indian Motion Picture Producers Association, at a meeting in Mumbai yesterday, passed a resolution to ban Pakistani actors from the industry after the Uri terror attack.
The resolution came after Indian Army announced that seven terror launch pads were targeted across the Line of Control by special forces during a 'surgical strike'.
Last week, Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena issued an ultimatum to Pakistani artistes and actors including Fawad Khan, who is part of one of the productions under Salman's banner, and Ali Zafar, to leave India by September 25 or else they would be "pushed out".
Recently, concerts of Pakistani singers Shafqat Amanat Ali and Atif Aslam scheduled in Bengaluru and Gurgaon respectively were also cancelled.