Film actress Meera is to star in Adnan Sami’s new music video. The actress told that she had met with Mr Sami on a recent trip to Bombay.

He offered me work in his next video and hopefully I will be working in it,” she said. Part of the video is to be shot in India and the rest abroad. Mr Sami is one of the most popular singers in India.

Meera said she would return to India in a couple of days for shooting of Nazar Kay Samnay, a film written by Mahesh Bhatt and to be directed by Soni Razdan. London-based producer Sev Ali of the Asian Pictures International and Mr Bhatt are the producers of the movie.

A leading Pakistani actress, who makes her Bollywood debut this week, wants Islamabad to lift a 40-year ban on Hindi language films to give a boost to warming ties between arch-rivals India and Pakistan.

Meera, who has starred in more than 30 Urdu language films, told Reuters on Wednesday she could work in Bollywood only because of the improved diplomatic relations between the two countries in the past one year.

One of Pakistan’s biggest movie actresses is risking the ultimate in south Asian controversy - by moving to India. To Pakistani dismay, Meera has announced that she is relocating to Bombay to further her career. But Meera is already a controversial figure in Pakistan, as well known for a notorious kissing scene as for her acting talents. Earlier this year, Meera said she had received death threats and demanded government protection after a scene in her debut film across the border in India, in which she kisses the actor Ashmit Patel. Kissing in public is not considered acceptable in conservative Islamic Pakistan.

Pakistan government has provided security to Lollywood actress Meera, even as a petition was filed in a Pakistani court seeking to ban her from acting in Indian films.

Meera, who returned from the sets of Mahesh Bhatt’s film ‘Nazar’ in Mumbai three days ago, was provided security after she took up the issue of threats with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Information Minister Sheikh Rashid. She had received threats for allegedly featuring in a kissing scene in the film. Meera lives in Lahore, the home of Pakistan’s fledgling film industry.

With all the negative publicity and flak that Meera has received in Pakistan thanks to her recent performance in Mahesh Bhatt’s Nazar and subsequent interviews to the Indian media, it is not surprising that the actress is now avoiding interviews like the plague. However, hurt and angry as she is, she agreed to give an exclusive to Imagesin which she confirmed that she had been fined by the government for her role in the film. The following are excerpts:

On her role in Nazar

Pakistani film actress Meera, who has been in the storm over some kissing scenes in the Bollywood flick Nazar, has said that it would be unjust on the part of the government to allow the screening of Mughal-e-Azam and not Nazar.

She said that Nazar also being an Indian movie should be screened in Pakistan, as it would give an impetus to the Indo-Pak peace process. She said that the government should in fact allow the screening of Nazar before Mughal-e-Azam is screened across theaters in Pakistan.

Lollywood’s popular cine star Meera is in Mumbai to act in her first Indian film.

Meera told reporters here that she would be staying in Mumbai for a month to complete her Bollywood movie ‘Nazar’ which is set to be released around the time of Diwali.

Responding to eager queries from callers during an FM-101 program, the Daily Times quoted her as saying that she would playing the lead role of a stage singer and performer in the film.

Co-produced by Mahesh Bhatt and Sevy Ali, Meera is paired with Ashmit Patel, the brother of “Gadar-Ek Prem Kahani” actress Amisha Patel.