Fawad Khan: A Cross-border Star In Limbo

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The front cover of the New Yorker Magazine issue from Aug 12, 1939. This issue depicts a South Asian tourist taking a photograph of an American family at an outdoor café. (Available as print).

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Fawad Khan: A Cross-border Star In Limbo

Fawad Khan once lit up screens in India and in Pakistan. When the trailer of Abir Gulaal released, he reignited a fan frenzy. But after the diplomatic tensions between the two countries escalated, an old debate reopened – are cross-border collaborations still worth it?

Abir Gulaal had a trailer. Lush, moody, and a nostalgic throwback to the kind of romantic drama that reminded audiences why they fell for Fawad Khan in the first. Abir Gulaal also marked the return of the actor to Indian screens after nearly a decade. Fans on both sides of the border, long separated by bans and silence, leaned in.

And then — silence.