Why was BSF guarding Ae Dil Hai Mushkil hall in Delhi?

Amid threats of not being allowed to be run, hostage videos by Karan Johar, and ransom deals with Raj Tackeray, Ae Dil hai Mushkil has finally been released (as per schedule). 

A more memorable fun incident realted to this difficult movie was MNS chief Raj Thackeray's demand that Bollywood producers who have worked with Pakistani actors should donate Rs 5 crore to the Indian Army's relief fund. The Army of course rejected this idea altogether and called Thackeray out for his opportunistic jingoism.

While the reviews are calling the movie everything between awesome and worse-than-SOTY, Raj Thackery is probably sitting at his home somewhere, caught in a moral dilemma: should he be angry at the army for not understanding his true patriotism (read trying to score quick political points), or should he respect their decision and not vandalise movie theatres (his favourite hobby).

The MNS may not be a threat any more but it seems that other right-wing Hindu outfits might be. Ae Dil hai Mushkil is a movie that features a Pakistani actor (Fawad Khan), and it would seem obvious that given the current situation our nation is in, with our neighbour, this would be the perfect time for these far-right groups to break a few limbs and smash and a few windows.

In a move that millenials would call "peak irony", ANI posted photos of the iconic Odeon theatre in Connaught Place, at the heart of New Delhi, being guarded by the men of our Border Security Force. Yes. 

Heavy security deployed outside multiplexes in Delhi as 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' hit the box office. #ADHM pic.twitter.com/UUyxxTPYCU

— ANI (@ANI_news) October 28, 2016

 Yes. The BSF is guarding a movie hall, that's playing a film featuring a Pakistani actor, from self-proclaimed trishul-thumping right-wing nationalists and patriots. Whether this ironic value was intentional or not, it did not go down well with people. 

It is true. If the government were afraid of possible vandalism, do they think the police force is insufficient/inefficient? If that is so, then that's a whole different level of things terribly messed up that we should be seriously worried about.

Also read - Five things we learnt from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil's teaser