When these two cousins tried to showcase how Hindus in Pakistan live, they drew backlash. They told Brut what they were thinking while putting out that content.
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00:00we are pakistani hindus of course people think we do not exist in pakistan
00:04we are pakistani hindus of course people think we are not happy here
00:07i had a comment that my ancestors would be ashamed of me
00:11my ancestors are completely from pakistan they won't be
00:26we are pakistani hindus and of course we greet people with
00:29assalamu alaikum and they greet us back with namaste
00:40people took it off like we are trying to portray
00:52that was not our point our point was to highlight
00:56we are pakistani hindus and we celebrate all our festivals here
01:02happy holi how we celebrate how we live how we fulfill our customs and traditions so that
01:09picture need to be there in front of people and we didn't deny but we portrait the other
01:14positive side of the picture
01:28society only tease or give tough time to the people they are able to be it from any religion
01:35the one who is under the economic pressures always undergoes all the vulnerabilities out there
01:44we had no idea that wearing certain costumes like you are portraying the hindu culture or muslim
01:59culture we had the question where's the bindi and where's this and that so we thought we were in the
02:04most decent respectable manners and i had no idea that color green is associated for certain religion
02:10in the mind of people i was so shocked we are pakistani hindus and of course people think our
02:16mother wears bangles bindis and saree all day at home people were judging i'm not an enough hindu
02:22or enough sanatan dharmi just because i read scriptures in urdu just because i practice those
02:27beliefs in pakistan so i was like dude you guys don't know my and my bond with my god like ours
02:34and our bond with god so how can you just characterize and generalize
02:53when we said yes we do exist we were not targeting any indian media or anything in india we were
03:01targeting the people in pakistan only because uh deepna has been around a lot of hindu people as
03:07compared to me because she was brought up in a society that had a lot of hindus as compared to me
03:12so i'm talking about myself here that when i was in school i was the only girl who was not a muslim
03:17when i was in when i was in college i was the only girl who was not a muslim so what i got from my
03:24that oh you're not a muslim
03:39my one point was like of course our mother don't wear bindi sindoor every time every time because
03:45culture
03:57being a vegetarian in pakistan is more difficult than being a minority
04:01okay we want pasta please bring chicken on separate we want pizza please we do not want
04:07chicken on that so this is how we are left with very rare food options whenever i used to tell
04:12anybody i am not a muslim so their first question was you are from india you are from india and you
04:18support indian cricket that we chose to add in a deal okay no we do not support indian cricket i
04:24am from pakistan i am a pakistani this is the culture here that if you are not a muslim then
04:30you're not patriotic in pakistan this is some misconception that i always cleared
04:34if there's a lot of heat this needs to end now and this was the purpose of our video