A hashtag #WhyBanBollywood has been trending on Twitter since Tuesday morning. On July 13, a Bangladeshi court had banned the use of Bollywood film songs as mobile phone caller tunes after hearing a petition from the President of the Bangladesh Music Industry Owners Association Arifur Rahman and General Secretary, SK Shahed Ali. Interestingly, the hashtag, which was first used by a Twitter user as a protest against Bangladesh’s ludicrous ban, seems to have snowballed into a campaign against Bollywood. Several Twitter users from Pakistan are calling for a similar ban in their country as well.
This is the tweet that kicked off the #WhyBanBollywood trend:
Just read that Bangladesh court bans bollywood movies & music! Next what? Banning this tweet in Bangladesh? #WhyBanBollywood
— Prankalizer (@thepranaysingh) August 4, 2015
And now, it has come to this:
#WhyBanBollywood Bollywood is the root of all evils, We want Indian content banned..
— Fatima (@fatimafaizaa) August 4, 2015
Bollywood movies spread the chaos created animosity between India and Pakistan that’s #WhyBanBollywood
— Shahrooz Malik (@shahroozma1ik) August 4, 2015
Item song girl. This is a stripper who dances for a song while getting groped by 100s of stranger guys. #WhyBanBollywood
— Hania Tehreem Ellahi (@haniatehreem) August 4, 2015
