INDIA: India's prolific film industry of Bollywood, based in the western port city of Bombay, is wooing Lollywood, its counterpart in neighbouring Pakistan's border city of Lahore, in an attempt to reduce tension between the nuclear rivals, which came close to war two years ago, writes Rahul Bedi, in Bombay
A delegation of Bollywood personalities plans to travel to Pakistan soon to discuss a range of issues including a ban on the making of movies that spread hatred between the two nations, a veteran producer, P.D. Mehra said.
"We will meet many Pakistani film celebrities as well as Prime Minister Zafarulla Khan Jamali," said Mr Mehra, who is the chief promoter of the Pakistan-India Performance Art Forum, an association founded to encourage peace between the two countries.
He also plans to ask the Pakistani authorities to lift a ban on screening Indian films and to stop pirating Bollywood productions.
Bollywood films, hugely popular in Pakistan, with many Indian stars enjoying a cult following, have been banned in the neighbouring state since the second 1965 war between them.