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Published: 26 April 2023

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Ashok Kumar and Lila Chitnis visited the Punjab. From filmindia.

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Published: 25 April 2023

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In Musing 1453, I wrote about the film Sarfarosh (1999) and surmised that the word Pakistani was used in this film for the first time. To which Rammesh Venugopal replied that it was not so, because the word Pakistan was used already in Border (1997).
So I watched the film Border (1997), based on the 1971 Indo-Pak War, and sure enough, the words East Pakistan and Pakistan were uttered in the first 15 minutes. So, until further research, this is the earliest film.
Of course, Rammesh would know, having written a very well-researched book on fifty Indian war movies. I also read his chapter on Border (1997) where he critiques the film and even finds about a dozen goofs.

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Whenever Hindi films need to refer to Pakistan, they typically say neighboring country or foreign country. I believe it changed with this film. The producer and director John Matthew Matthan said in an interview that the Censor Board gave him trouble for using the words, Pakistan and ISI. In the end he was able to keep the words, ISI, Pakistani and Islamabad.

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