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Pathaan creates Bollywood history despite protests, boycott calls
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Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan, recorded the biggest opening weekend for any Hindi film.
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NEW DELHI - Multiple boycott calls, including one from a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian, buffeted the film before its worldwide release. A BJP minister in Madhya Pradesh even threatened to ban its screening in the state. And Hindu right-wing activists trooped into theatres showing the film and burnt its posters at multiple locations across India.
But all this hullabaloo did not pre-empt Pathaan, a Bollywood spy action thriller starring one of India’s most loved stars, Shah Rukh Khan, from creating film history.
