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Richa Chadha Came To Fawad’s Rescue After Reporter Asked A Stereotyping Question About Pak

byParth Shahanand
22nd August 2016
2 minute read

The current crop of celebrities is very close knit. They have bigger issues to worry about than petty rivalries and competition. At a recent press conference at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, Richa Chadha jumped to Fawad Khan’s rescue when he was asked a stereotyping question.

Fawad Khan was asked to comment on the fact that he comes from a country with different cultures and that since he’s working in Bollywood, he’s representing a different culture.

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The journalist’s question was as follows:

“My question is to Mr. Fawad Khan. You’re representing a country and culture which much different from your own. In all senses, especially Bollywood, may be the on screen romance or the kissing scenes or the cultures we have or the way India has adopted westernisation. Because I have a lot of Pakistani friends and when I speak to them, I get the sense that the two countries are different and Pakistan is a lot different from India.”

 
Richa Chadha cut in and answered the question for Fawad.

“I think we should avoid stereotyping in questions or creating some kind of contradiction here because the whole intent and especially art does really have any borders.”

She said that because of the British colonisation, India and Pakistan were seperated, and as a reason of the same, stereotyping the two cultures is not fair.

 

This was Richa’s entire statement.

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“I would like to answer that. Sorry I am cutting in. You know we were colonised by the British for a really long time. It’s a part of the… I am sorry if I am offending anybody here, but if you look at worldwide history, every time the British left an empire, they divided it. Whether it was North Korea or South Korea, then there was Germany. It is a part of the strategy to keep political unrest to sort of maintain a global kind of… I am sorry but your question, to me, doesn’t make sense because I will have far more in common with Fawad because I am from the North of India than I will have with somebody who is a Tambrahm or maybe Malayali or from the North East. I think we should avoid stereotyping in questions or creating some kind of contradiction here because the whole intent and especially art does really have any borders.”

 
Fawad also answered the question and said that since television is more accessible to people in Pakistan, they will always have those kinds of sensibilities. Portrayal of various things are way different on television as opposed to cinema, and to bring that kind of cinema to Pakistan will require a little curve for them.

 

You can watch the entire exchange below.

https://youtu.be/3yeoHrWX1oE

That was a great response from Richa and it shows the multicultural diversity in the industry, and the respect our celebs have for the same.

News source: The Indian Express
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