Prabhas is going to do a new film with Anurag Puri. It is called Fauji for now. Muhurat Puja has been done. It is a period film. The latest news is that Iman Ismail will be opposite Prabhas in this film, whose connections are with Pakistan. It is said that the makers changed Iman’s name and cast her in Prabhas’ film. Let’s find out what the entire story is about.
Iman is a social media influencer, a dance choreographer and a content creator. When we wrote this news, she had more than 8,82,000 followers on Instagram and 1.82 million subscribers on her YouTube channel. Iman teaches dance and conducts workshops. A few years ago, a song choreographed by her went viral. The song is called “Kamta Jogi,” and it’s from a movie called Taal. After that, she worked with many celebrities.
If we visit Iman’s IMDB page, we will see that she lives in Los Angeles but was born in India. Her father was in the Pakistani Army. Later, her family shifted to California. At that time, Iman Ismail was eight years old. According to IMDb, Iman was born on October 20, 1995, in Delhi. She has also worked in a short film in which she played the small role of a Pakistani immigrant. Till here, everything is correct.
However, one day, Iman suddenly changed the names of all her social media handles and created a new Twitter account. Her new name is visible everywhere, from her Instagram page to her YouTube channel and Twitter. After changing her name, Imanvi also shares photos with Prabhas and Fauji and gives information about her debut in the Telugu industry. You can see thumbnails of some old videos from some of her YouTube channels on social media.
Her name is Iman she changed the name of her social media handles to Imanvi but kept the name written on the thumbnail the same because she would have to change the thumbnail of each video separately. After seeing the thumbnails of some videos of Iman Smile, people are saying that Fauji makers changed Iman’s name to Imanvi. A new Twitter account named Imanvi has been recently created.
When we wrote this news, there was one post and 2000 followers on this account. That’s the only post on this account talking about Fauji. Now, the question is why the makers did this. Maanvi’s connections are with Pakistan.
Her family background is from a neighbouring country. In such a situation, the makers of Fauji don’t want any controversy by casting a Pakistani actor in their film because after the Uri attack in 2016, the Indian Motion Pictures Association, IMPPA, had decided not to work with Pakistani artists.
It was a complete ban on Pakistani artists. Consequently, Indian filmmakers ceased collaboration with Pakistani actors, singers, and technicians. Since then, whenever a Pakistani artist was given work in Indian films, controversy arose around them, and demands were made to boycott those films. To avoid those controversies, the makers of Prabhas’s film even changed the name Mann to Imaan.
Although the Indian government didn’t ban Pakistani artists, there was no fixed period for how long that ban would last. With time, things cooled down between India and Pakistan, and the efforts to work with Pakistani artists started again. In 2023, a person named Faiz Anwar Qureshi, who works in movies and is an artist, asked the Bombay High Court for help by writing a formal request.
In that, he demanded that the Indian government should ban any association of Pakistani artists with Indian filmmakers. But the court rejected his plea and said this would be a step back towards promoting cultural harmony and unity within India and across the border with Pakistan. It was recently announced that Fawad Khan is coming back to Hindi films. He will appear in a romantic comedy film currently untitled alongside Vaani Kapoor.
Which will be shot in London. Fawad will play the chef’s role in this film, and Aarti Bagdi will direct it. The next name in this series is Iman Smile, who is going to work with Prabhas in a film named Fauji; it is said to be an army film set in the 1940s in which there will be an equal mix of reality and fantasy, for now, what will you say about this film.