Shahrukh Khan on BBC World's Asia Today

Televisionpoint.com Team
Bollywood's superstar, Shahrukh Khan, tells Tuesday's edition of BBC World's Asia Today that cinema can play an important role in resolving tension between India and Pakistan and calls for the industry to be gentler.

He says, "‘The cinema needs to be more gentle - it can explain to people that we are one world or we live in the same area and we have the same thoughts and same problems and we need to sort them out in a way that is more amicable than politicising an issue."

Shahrukh says that he has always viewed India and Pakistan as one, and expresses his desire to see them unite, "I do wish we could progress socially, economically and religiously together and I would love it to be one country. We would kick everybody's butt in hockey and cricket I'm sure - if we got together."

Speaking to Humphrey Hawksley, Shahrukh talks about being a Muslim and shares his experience of being frisked at American airports. He feels it's his duty as a Muslim and as a human-being to spread a message to the world that Islam is not a violent religion. He says: “I think terrorism has no religion, it's [a] just point of view - right or wrong. I am sure [it's] right from their point of view but [it's] wrong for most of us…what religion they belong to, or what country they belong to, I don't think [it's] the reason they are doing it.'

This edition of Asia Today will be broadcast on BBC World today, December 27 at 0515, 0700, 0800, 0900, 1600 and 2000 IST.