The few Pakistani movie theaters that have not already been turned into shopping malls are pressing for the right to show Bollywood pictures. Theater owners are threatening to go on strike over the issue.
Some have expressed surprise that the reports about Meera's film have caused so much criticism. "Nazar frankly contained nothing more licentious than any Pakistani film," Hasan Zaidi wrote this month in Dawn, an English-language daily.
Meera maintains that she has done nothing wrong. "I am a professional actress," she said, "but some people take it personally."
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