Richa Chadha and Fawad Khan were at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne recently when Khan was asked a question about the cultural differences between India and Pakistan.
The journalist asked Khan about the cultures of the two countries being contradictory and the way Bollywood has westernised, for instance in terms of representation of romance like "onscreen kissing", Pakistan hasn't because it's a "lot different from India."
Chadha took the question and respectfully disagreed with the journalist to make a valid point. She said:
"I would like to answer that. You know we were colonised by the British for a really long time. 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... 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.”
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Well, some people on Twitter started trolling Chadha for saying that being from north India she finds more in common with Khan than she would with a "Tambrahm" or a "Malayali".
True! A Bimbo like @RichaChadha_ will have more in common with Dumb Pakis than Intellectually gifted TamBrahms :)) https://t.co/Wr7z8gTyMV
@RichaChadha_ shame on you for dissing Indians for that pakirat fawad . Curse of Indians be upon you👎🏻
And queen Chadha started slam-dunking them one by one.
@invisibleguy18 not defending wrongs done by any government/culture. Also, gurmukhi is too strong to just be killed off 💪🏼