Ronit Roy, Ashmit Patel speak their mind on ban on Pakistani artists

Bollywood seems sharply divided over the ban of

Pakistani artists

. While some are supporting the ban, others don't share the same point of view. Actor Ronit Roy and Ashmit Patel during the trailer launch of '

Dongri Ka Raja

' shared their opinions on the issue.

Ronit instead of giving his take, narrated as story and asked people to draw their own conclusions. He stated that one of his friends, who is an actor, knows an Indian army

jawan

who is fighting at the LOC and when his friend asked the jawan his opinion about the ban, the jawan replied that while soldiers are fighting at LOC day and facing bullets for Indian people, they are sitting there in Mumbai and drinking tea with those Pakistani actors.

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Rohit said that the story stayed with him and people can guess which side of debate he is on. His co-star from the film, Ashmit Patel too expressed his views. Ashmit had worked with Meera, a Pakistani actress in the film 'Nazar' which was a co-production between India and Pakistan. He shared that when the trailer of the film that was released in Karachi, people objected to the scene where he had kissed Meera. Ashmit recalled how they expressed shocked over an Indian boy, that too a Hindu, kissing a Pakistani Muslim girl. 'When the film was being premiered in Pakistan, I couldn't attend it as my visa was rejected,' he was quoted as saying by a news portal. He added that he was deeply hurt because of that.

Ashmit said he is all for art and artistes but Indians should also be allowed to work there without restrictions. On the issue of ban, he said that nobody was asking the Pakistani actors to condemn Pakistan or their government, but asking them to speak up about terrorism.