THE latest confidence-building measure (CBM) in the growing amity between India and Pakistan is the welcoming embrace of Taj Mahal by the latter. Well, not the monument of love in Agra but a symbolic gesture of how the greatest of all emotions needs no boundaries.
It was indeed a moving picture!
The screening of two Indian films in Pakistani movie houses after a 40-year ban is also attaining political significance with many convinced that cultural bonding remains the best way to bring the two neighbours close.
Taj Mahal, a mega budget movie, was premiered in Lahore, the cultural hub of Pakistan last month. Based on the true story of Emperor Shah Jehans love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal in whose honour he built the fantastic Taj Mahal, the film has been released with much fanfare in Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Multan, Hyderabad and Rawalpindi. This came after one of Bollywoods greatest love epics, Mughal-e-Azam – redone in colour – became the first Indian movie in decades to be officially released in a Pakistani cinema.
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