Why Bollywood is Pakistan's propaganda factory? No its not due to Dawood

In the early days of the Mumbai film industry , Pakistan was never really mentioned and simply referred to as "dushman" (enemy) or "pados" (neighbor). Why this was the case I really dont know. I suspect it had as much to do with Nehruvian sentimentality as the stupidity of the Censor Board.

This all changed almost overnight in the late 90s when Pakistan began getting mentioned left and right in movies both pro and con. Initially con and then pro.

Im old enough to remember the movies of the early 90s which were produced by D company . How did you know they were produced by the mafia? Some of it was intuitive- if you felt sleazy after watching it but couldnt articulate why then its a mafia produced film. A lot of it involved noble Muslims, cowardly Hindu men and sexually loose Hindu women. Now mind you a lot of these movies werent really anti India, heck they showed an Indian Muslim to be more brave in his patriotism by willing to die than a cowardly Tamil Brahmin who cowers and pleads with the enemy agent for his life. This was the gem of secularism as per our elite press. Praising Pakistan is something that even Dawood didnt dare, heck there was no indication that he had any love for Pakistan.
Whether he was involved in the 1993 bombing is still an open question which I am forced to give him benefit of doubt but certainly he had knowledge of it but chose not to do much about it.

The liberalization of the economy and its atttendant opening of Indian skies to satellite stations meant that Indians had access to views that escaped the stifling political correctness of Doordarshan (so beloved by ISI agent Ajit Vadakayil) *. And this a  time when was the Kashmir region was raging out of control and due to the inertia of Cold War, while America was warming towards India it still supported Pakistan overall and there was no Russia worth its name to help it. Speaking of Russia, it was formerly the Soviet Union and there was a feeling that if a multi ethnic confederation would break up, then so would India and German reuinification might give rise to Kashmiri reunification.
This was how Pakistani propagandists sold the idea to the United States which was then led by a horn dog and petty minded shallow man called Bill Clinton who was incapable of any strategic vision which involved reoriented a foreign policy that was now defunct even as Pakistani artichect of the 1993 WTC bombing proved.

Secular press tried to keep  Kashmiri jihad atrocities under the rug but Zee TV/Zee News who were not exactly pro Hindutva but wished to make a dent by serving under served constitutents told it like it is with all the rapes, massacres and ethnic cleansing of Pandits by the Muslim terrorists got the Hindu publics blood boiling. And add to this the Prime Minister Narasimha Rao who was perhaps the only PM to date who spent a good chunk of his youth fighting a Muslim despot and unlike the frauds Nehru, Rajiv and Indira was Indic and patriotic to the core.

It is not a coincidence that BJP first made its electoral gains almost achieving the PM slot in 1996. The explosion of the internet further loosened the grip of legacy media on the narrative. "Now what to do?" thought the establishment. How to control these pesky Hindus asking uncomfortable questions about Pakistan which are best swept under the rug?

Films, video games,pornography etc are outlets rather inlets. i.e I dont think these mediums are very effective at propaganda as people go there for an emotional release rather than be persuaded about a particular viewpoint. Men who watch more pornography are actually less likely to commit rape. And all the violent video games in the world wont make a kid go out and shoot his classmates.
Same issue with films. The censor board is not that stupid. When it approves the vigilante hero slaughtering corrupt politicians and policemen, it knows that no matter how gratifying that may feel to the viewing public they become less likely to act on it.

And so the pressure cooker release is to make a few anti Pakistani films such as the absurd Gaddar, Maa Tujhe Salam and host of other shlock. Notice these movies are not made by respectable directors by purely masala filmmakers. Once that was done, the films were dragged back to the mean by PUNJABI REFUGEE filmmakers (I capitalize because these are the guys who insist on making pro Pakistani films) . Shameless people such as Yash Chopra, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Kapoors and others wish to sympathize those who evicted them from their ancestral lands. And since then there have been hardly any anti Pakistani films worth mentioning. Heck there are movies which lambast Americans for their drone attacks in Pakistan which makes our captain shed many tears everynight on his pillow. In the abhorrent film My Name Is Khan the movie goes so far to erase any distinction between Indians and Pakistanis by conflating Pakistani sufferings onto Indians because they are both brown and foreign to Americans or something. No sorry, most Americans are not that ignorant . They know the difference between Hindus and Muslims and Sikhs.
So in other words Karan Johar(another Punjabi) wishes for Indians to suffer for the misdeeds of Pakistanis out of a sense of solidarity of being...what?

In conclusion, no it is Dawood or any Islamic mafia which is responsible for pro Pakistani bias but purely a Punjabi Hindu disease of slobbering before and licking the shoes of those who kick them.
It is a terrifying thought that Punjabi Hindus are overrepresented in India's army but then Pakistans army is mostly Punjabi too. And hence seeing both are incapable of aggression the stalemate continues.
Contrast this to Tamil Sinhala ethnic conflict where each side spilled oceans of blood to acquire even a square foot of land.

If you think I am being unfair to Punabis, look at their history ,customs and music. Where is the martial aspect in it? Where Tamil and Rajput culture for instance is all about celebrating heroes, Punjabi cultural ethos is about star crossed lovers.  It is all live and let live . Sikhs are wonderful but they are anomaly, divorced from Indian mainstream after 1984, drug addled and now demartialized.

Aakar Patel once mourned that Bollywood is running out of Punjabis as Punjabis are the most extroverted people on the subcontinent. That is contestable but even if true, it doesnt matter as a national film industry should represent various demographics in that country whether behind or infront of a camera.  I mean god forbid an actual Northeastern actress portray Mary Kom. Who better to be play her than Priyanka Chopra? Of course thats the obvious choice!

I prefer the more introverted Type A Tamil personalities in charge who have no qualms cutting all the Pakistani generals throats live on air and then enjoying a dish of Chettinad chicken engaging in chitchat over the formers corpses than extroverted fun loving Punjabis singing "Gawande Gawande" with each other.

* Is the captain an ISI agent? I cant say with certainty. However there is more circumstantial evidence for this than there is for me being a Rothschild agent. How did a merchant marine(whose salary while good isnt that high) afford such expensive properties. How is he able to send his son to places like Cornell where the tuition starts at $50000 a year. Never mind his other boasts. I dont know. Perhaps his income streams are legitimate. Its best if the tax authorities have a serious look at his finances.