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Kabir Khan: One Taliban Member Looked Straight Into My Camera & Said, 'You Think We Are Gone, We Will Be Back'
Ever since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, many B-town celebrities have expressed their concern for the women, men and children of the nation. Earlier, B-town stars like Kangana Ranaut, Parineeti Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Swara Bhasker, etc., shared their views on the Afghanistan crisis. Now, director Kabir Khan has shared his take on the ongoing chaos in Afghanistan.
While speaking to Hindustan Times, Kabir Khan said, "All of this is bizarre that after 20 years an organisation like the Taliban can come back."
He further added, "It makes me remember one little incident from my documentary, where we were interviewing some of the Taliban members in 2001 post the 9/11 incident. And one senior Taliban member just looked straight into my camera, said, 'You think we are gone, we will be back'. The confidence with which he said at that time sent chills down my spine. And now, when I remember that statement, it haunts me."
Kabir Khan was speaking about his 2006 directorial Kabul Express, starring John Abraham and Arshad Warsi, which captured the conflict between Afghanistan and Taliban. The director said that he is worried about his friends who stay in Afghanistan, but feels helpless as he cannot do anything for them.
"One of my friends and actor Bashir has been forced to run away from his house and go underground after his place was ransacked by the Taliban," revealed the 52-year-old.
The director went on to add that artistes are often soft targets due to their fame and high profile lifestyle.
"In the first avatar of Taliban in 1996-2001, forget films, they did not even allow photography. The only photographers that were allowed to operate were passport photographers," averred Kabir.
The director told The Quint, "There is going to be an exodus of all artistes; they would have to run away, which happened the last time also. I know a lot of them who were my friends, who worked with me in Kabul Express, they used to narrate stories to me about how they ran away to Iran because that's the only place they could easily get work, because Dari which is spoken in Kabul is basically a dialect of Farsi, so for them it's easier to get work in Iran. Some came away to India, some would go to Pakistan...."
