{"id":5663,"date":"2016-10-05T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:13:37","slug":"om-puri-accused-insulting-soldiers-complaint-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5663","title":{"rendered":"Om Puri accused of insulting soldiers, complaint filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The 65-year-old actor was speaking on the controversy over the ban on Pakistani actors by a Hindi film producers&#8221; association in the aftermath of the Uri terror attack, in which 19 soldiers were killed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A complaint has been filed against veteran actor Om Puri for comments on Indian soldiers that many said were insensitive.<br \/>\nDuring a TV debate on Monday, Puri said: &#8220;Did we force them to join the army? My father was also in the army&#8230; We are proud of them (soldiers)&#8230; I am asking you: Do you want India and Pakistan to become Israel and Palestine?<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old actor was speaking on the controversy over the ban on Pakistani actors by a Hindi film producers&#8217; association in the aftermath of the Uri terror attack, in which 19 soldiers were killed.<br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t give a damn to Salman Khan or some other Khan&#8230; Go to Modiji (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) and cancel their (Pakistani actors&#8217;) visas. Prepare 15-20 people as suicide bombers and send them to Pakistan,&#8221; the actor said<br \/>\nReacting to his comment, filmmaker Ashoke Pandit tweeted: &#8220;Om Puriji, Pak artistes banned isn&#8217;t a solution, but show of solidarity to our martyrs. We can&#8217;t be lighting pyres while continuing to perform with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anupam Kher wrote that while he respected Mr Puri, &#8220;watching him on the TV show and hearing his views related to Indian soldiers was very sad&#8221;.<br \/>\nPuri visited Pakistan in August to promote the Pakistani film &#8220;Actor in Law&#8221;, in which he plays a key role.<br \/>\nThe actor had said during the debate that the ban on Pakistani artistes will not change the situation and that it will only cause immense losses to Indian producers.<br \/>\nWhile he has won some support for this view, his comments on soldiers has left many on social media seething. <strong><em>IANS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 65-year-old actor was speaking on the controversy over the ban on Pakistani actors by a Hindi film producers&#8221; association in the aftermath of the Uri terror attack, in which 19 soldiers were killed. A complaint has been filed against veteran actor Om Puri for comments on Indian soldiers that many said were insensitive. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}