Adnan Sami Khan Gets Indian Citizenship... A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

Adnan Sami Khan Gets Indian Citizenship... A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss (A Feature by Shoby)...

Artist, no matter what field they belong to, are considered as the ambassadors of love & peace for the world. At the same time, they are regarded as the representatives of their nation & homeland. Everyone of us belongs to a specific country and it is quite evident that every true patriotic citizen feels proud in his country. Ghar ki khatir so dukh jhene, ghar to akhir apna hai...

Many artists from Pakistan visit India & their artists visit Pakistan for the sake of cultural & art based activities. Atif Aslam, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shakil Siddiqui, Naseem Vicky, Naseer uddin Shah and many others visit their neighboring country to showcase their talent while keeping the grace & respect of their homeland alive.

Recently, Adnan Sami Khan who hails from Pakistan has acquired citizenship of India. It is pertinent to mention here that he was already working in India for almost 15 years and has earned quite a fame there. There is no doubt about his skills & abilities as far as music is concerned. He is a brilliant music composer, an excellent keyboard player & a very versatile singer. Apart from doing some independent projects like music albums (Kabhi To Nazar Milao, Tera Chehra etc), he has also given original soundtracks for various Bollywood movies (Lucky- No Time For Love & Sadiyan). Having said that no one should forget that he actually belongs from Pakistan and Pakistan is the land that made him The Adnan Sami.

He used to feature for a long tenure in an episodic program on Pakistani national TV (PTV) and also worked as a singer, musician & lead artist in showman of Lollywood Syed Noor's musical romantic drama film Sargam in early 90s.

Now as Adnan Sami has officially been given a status of Indian citizen, I am not at all going to debate on it as I believe that it is a person's very own decision to live in any part of the globe. Above all, I have a firm belief that art & artist is beyond boundaries and an artist should have all the liberty to visit/ live in any part of the world so that everyone gets to enjoy & cherish his art but the problem lies when one starts going below the belt.

After acquiring Indian nationality, Adnan took social media to announce the news. He not only jubilantly announced his newly granted Indian nationality but also renounced his Pakistani citizenship. He also featured in mainstream media where he has shown his ebullience & delight on being the Indian citizen. This is all good for him but at the same time he almost disgracefully revoked his Pakistani nationality and quoted in his interview that "I am spiritually an Indian". He further went on to say that "I was an Indian from the begining as I was born on Indian independence day 15 August". He chanted Indian national patriotic slogan & also colored his social media handle in Indian flag specific colors.

Upon asking the question about recent controversy regarding statements of Amir Khan & Shahrukh Khan, he looked over exaggerated and Times of India quoted him saying, "Had there been intolerance, I would not have taken Indian citizenship. I have never experienced intolerance. There is no intolerance in India".

Many celebrities & journalists have regarded his expressions as disgraceful. Shehkar Gupta, a renowned Indian journalist on his official twitter handle stated, "Know what, I am not flattered Adnan Sami wraps himself in tricolour & says Jai Hind. Can 1 who dumps own motherland be an Indian patriot now".

Adnan Sami's recent statements have not gone well to Pakistani public as well and many artists from Pakistan have also shown their dislike over it.

I personally want to say only one thing, as an artist you should have all the liberties to showcase the talent globally but anyone who forgets his roots have no future in any other place. It is said that He that apes others will never be himself (Kawa Chala Hans Ki Chall, apni bhi bhool gaya).