{"id":229,"date":"2006-05-18T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/05\/the-travails-of-mr-feroze-khan.html"},"modified":"2006-05-18T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T14:03:00","slug":"the-travails-of-mr-feroze-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/05\/the-travails-of-mr-feroze-khan.html","title":{"rendered":"The travails of Mr. Feroze Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very interesting and side-splitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/morenews\/showmorestory.asp?slug=Feroze+Khan+banned+from+entering+Pak&amp;id=88087&amp;category=National\">article<\/a> from NDTV. Presumably you&#8217;ve all heard of the debacle Feroze Khan created in Pakistan when over there for his brother&#8217;s film&#8217;s (Taj Mahal) premiere. Of course, more entertainment ensued after that gaffe. The BJP vice-president Muktar Abbas Naqvi jumped up to support Feroze Khan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiadaily.com\/breaking_news\/69107.asp\">calling him a true nationalist<\/a>. Yeah, we&#8217;re all for cheap publicity ! Many adjectives are suitable for Feroze Khan, but &#8220;nationalist&#8221; never crossed my mind. Feroze Khan the poster boy for Indian nationalism ? Hmm, no dearth of jokers here. OK, so then poor, caught-in-the-crossfire Akbar Khan of course said that his brother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newkerala.com\/news2.php?action=fullnews&amp;id=51704\">did not mean it<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/ww1.mid-day.com\/news\/nation\/2006\/may\/136425.htm\">threatened to sue Naqvi<\/a>. Apparently matters have come to a head now, with President Musharraf banning Feroze Khan from entering Pakistan. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, much fun is had by all. The on-lookers I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I wondered then whether Mr. Khan was drunk or stoned to make such remarks while in Pakistan presumably trying to sell the movie there, right ? I mean, did he think that the Pakistani public would want to see the movie more if he derided them and criticised the country at large ? Basic economic sense my dear, you can think and say what you like, but I&#8217;m not sure you want to castigate the people you wish to sell to. They might not buy your stuff. <\/p>\n<p>On a side-note, I&#8217;m wondering : Can Mr. not-all-there-Feroze Khan be banned from India ? The BJP might oppose the move, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Categories : _india , _culture_and_society<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11570614-114798628070268942?l=reviewroom.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very interesting and side-splitting article from NDTV. Presumably you&#8217;ve all heard of the debacle Feroze Khan created in Pakistan when over there for his brother&#8217;s film&#8217;s (Taj Mahal) premiere. Of course, more entertainment ensued after that gaffe. The BJP vice-president Muktar Abbas Naqvi jumped up to support Feroze Khan, calling him a true nationalist. 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The BJP vice-president Muktar Abbas Naqvi jumped up to support Feroze Khan, calling him a true nationalist.&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}