{"id":439489,"date":"2025-04-23T13:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=439489"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:10:52","slug":"naeema-butt-cant-work-in-india-because-of-her-pakistani-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/naeema-butt-cant-work-in-india-because-of-her-pakistani-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Naeema Butt Can&#8217;t Work in India Because of Her Pakistani Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/naeema-butt-calls-out-her-kabhi-main-kabhi-tum-co-stars-as-fake-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naeema Butt,<\/a> known for her fiery role as Rubab in <em>Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum<\/em>, wants to work in Bollywood but there&#8217;s only one problem, she has a Pakistani passport.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, she revealed a string of offers from Indian films, dramas, and OTT platforms\u2014offers that might as well be fairy tales, given India\u2019s extremist-led regime that would rather burn bridges than let a Pakistani artist step foot on its soil.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/maria-b-responds-to-payment-fraud-after-public-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria B Responds to Payment Fraud After Public Backlash<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been offered some amazing projects from India, but my passport says I\u2019m not welcome,\u201d Naeema Butt stated, her words dripping with the naivety of someone who thinks talent can trump politics.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s current leadership, obsessed with its hardline agenda, has made it crystal clear: Pakistani artists are persona non grata, banned since 2016 in a petty display of cultural nationalism that prioritizes hate over art.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than work on ambitious projects in Pakistan, Naeema clings to a laughable sliver of hope, flaunting her American green card like it\u2019s a magic wand. \u201cI\u2019m hopeful things will change,\u201d she said, as if a green card could erase the venom of a government that thrives on exclusion.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/woman-gets-rare-brain-disorder-after-listening-to-taylor-swift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woman Gets Rare Brain Disorder After Listening to Taylor Swift<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>For Naeema, who\u2019s also shone in <em>Ehd-e-Wafa<\/em> and <em>Jindo<\/em>, the dream of sharing screen space with Bollywood\u2019s elite is a cruel mirage. India\u2019s extremist rulers have no use for her talent, and her green card is just a shiny trinket in a game rigged against her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naeema Butt, known for her fiery role as Rubab in Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum, wants to work in Bollywood but there&#8217;s only one problem, she has a Pakistani passport. In a recent interview, she revealed a string of offers from Indian films, dramas, and OTT platforms\u2014offers that might as well be fairy tales, given India\u2019s extremist-led regime that would rather [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/naeema-butt-cant-work-in-india-because-of-her-pakistani-passport\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":393239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2506,1294,2576,2513,1293,2515],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-439489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actors","8":"category-bollywood","9":"category-celebrity-news","10":"category-drama-serial","11":"category-lollywood","12":"category-movie-film"},"wps_subtitle":"The 'Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum' star is getting a lot of offers from India.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-1-1-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-1-1-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Untitled-1-1.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Sher Alam","categories_name":["Actors","Bollywood","Celebrity News","Drama serial","Lollywood","Movie\/Film"],"title_text":"Naeema Butt Can\u2019t Work in India Because of Her Pakistani Passport","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2506,1294,2576,2513,1293,2515&exclude=439489","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439489"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=439489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}