Today's Bollywood stars might be all geared up to promote Indo-Pak cultural relationships in the year 2004, but the same does not seem to hold true for the film industry's old-timers. Burnt once too often by the wrath of parties like the Shiv Sena in Bombay, they are not taking chances any longer. As one former legend tells me, on condition of anonymity, "...one never knows when the tide shall turn again, and while the present generation has the resources, the fan following and the energy to fight back, we have none of this, and since many of us are linked to the districts of Pakistan by birth, we become the scapegoats at the end of it."