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Shashi Kapoor Offers $1 M For Jinnah Film
ISLAMABAD: Film actor Shashi Kapoor last week offered to invest $1 million in a film based on the life of M.A. Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
Kapoor offered this after the Pakistan government announced that it would be withdrawing its funding.
The News reported last week that Kapoor made the offer so that the work on the film would not be affected.
He plays the narrator of the film, which has been rocked by controversy ever since filming started in late February.
The Pakistan government had announced last week that it would not fund the film because of certain objectionable portions of the script.
The script, which is said to show Jinnah in a negative light, has put the producers of the project in...