Pakistanis are canceling their Netflix subscriptions and they have Bollywood’s King Khan to blame.
Recently the ‘King of Bollywood‘, Shahrukh Khan released the trailer for his new Netflix series ‘Bard of Blood’. Immediately, an overwhelming number of Pakistanis took SRK to task over stereotyping Muslims as brown terrorists yet again.
While Bollywood has done so for ages, the Pakistani audience expected better from Netflix. Especially since Netflix has also created well-received content like Brown Nation, Dear White People, and When They See Us.
Not even SRK or the writer Bilal Siddiqui stopped once to think about the severity of projecting racist stereotypes against brown Muslims.
This just vindicates what I have been saying for so long. Another week & yet another anti-Pakistan project. Now can we wake up, smell the coffee & see Bollywood’s agenda for what it is?@iamsrk Be patriotic, nobody is stopping you – just don’t do it at the expense of vilifying us. https://t.co/iCElRpJAa1
— Mehwish Hayat TI (@MehwishHayat) August 23, 2019
Stay in bollywood syndrome @iamsrk . For reality see RAW Spy Kulbhushan Jadev, Wing Comd Abhinandan & state of 27 Feb 2019.
You could rather promote peace & humanity by speaking against atrocities in IOJ&K and against Hindituva of Nazism obsessed RSS. https://t.co/0FWqoRQsO6— Asif Ghafoor (@peaceforchange) August 23, 2019
Swedish-Pakistani YouTuber, Furqan Shayk called for Muslims to cancel their Netflix subscriptions to send a clear message.
Dear @netflix I’m canceling my subscription after looking at the trailer of #BardOfBlood I & a lot of muslims around the world don’t pay u to make us look bad. We aren’t what u are portraying to the world, cuz of such shit show, u are building an extreme narrative about muslims.
— Furqan Shayk (@FurqanShayk) August 23, 2019
Unlike Furqan Shayk, Pakistanis don’t have the option of switching to Hulu for the time being. But are brown Muslims really going to allow their money to be used to paint them as terrorists?
Most Pakistani Muslims joined Furqan Shayk and canceled their subscriptions.
I’m cancelling my membership after looking the traliler of #BardOfBlood I and a lot of other Muslim don’t pay you to make us look bad. We aren’t what you’re portraying us to the world because of that shit show. @netflix @FurqanShayk #bycottnetflix pic.twitter.com/RZBsxnq1Dh
— emanabid (@MaanSaa74089761) August 23, 2019
Dear @netflix I’m canceling my subscription after looking at the trailer of #BardOfBlood I & a lot of muslims around the world don’t pay u to make us look bad. We aren’t what u are portraying to the world, cuz of such shit show, u are building an extreme narrative about muslims.
— Furqan Shayk (@FurqanShayk) August 23, 2019
