Two Hindi films release kept on hold in Pakistan

Pakistan may indulge in a cold war against India, but its people are as crazy as Indians to watch Hindi movies. They are so obsessed with Hindi films that often they ignore their native Pakistani films. That is why, Pakistani film distributors and exhibitors have decided to put two big Hindi films- Shahrukh Khan’s Chennai Express and Akshay Kumar’s ‘Once upon a time in Mumbai’ on hold for a while to enable their own films get the full audiences.

Both these Hindi films are made targeting Eid festival on August 8th, but had a set back with the distributors’ decision. Abdul Rashid, the leading film distributor of Pakistan has agreed that an estimated loss of Rs.20 crores will occur due to this decision. He said this decision was taken to enable four Pakistani films-'Ishq Khuda', 'War', 'Josh' and 'Mera Naam Afridi' releasing on the same day get full audiences. He said both the Hindi films will be released on August 15th but by the time piracy may narrow their margin.