Monday, 26 September 2016

Indo-Pak Drama Spills Over To British TV

Indo-Pak drama spills over to British TV

Pakistan-born actor Marc Anwar sacked from British soap Coronation Street after he posted abusive tweets against India



The script of Britain's longest-running soap opera, Coronation Street, is being hastily rewritten. The reason is that the upcoming track of the show prominently featured Pakistan-born actor Marc Anwar, who has now been sacked. In a statement, the channel bosses said that Anwar, who joined the show in February 2014, has been sacked “with immediate effect“ after he tweeted racist and abusive comments against Indians on Friday .The statement said, “We are deeply shocked by the entirely unacceptable, racially offensive comments made on Twitter by Marc Anwar. We have talked to Marc and, as a consequence of his comments, he will not be returning to Coronation Street with immediate effect.“

According to some reports, Anwar's character, Sharif Nazir, will be on screen for a few episodes since the storyline features him so heavily that it won't be possible to edit Sharif out of immediate episodes at this late stage.The show's team will be rewriting weeks' worth of future storylines and scripts to explain Sharif's sudden disappearance.

A source told a UK tabloid that “the whole crew has been gagged and put on lock down after the racist tweets scandal.“

Anwar's tweets came after Pakistani actors were told to leave India by the MNS.


(TOI)

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