It took me five sittings to watch #Pathaan on Amazon Prime and I've had this head-scratching moment:
He's called Pathaan because his adopted family in Afghanistan call him, "Pathaan."
And strangely, over the last decade of working with Afghans, I have heard them identify themselves as Pashtun, never Pathan. That's because Pathan is a term used for the Afghan settlers in Swat and around in north-west Pakistan by Western/British sources that became popular among the Hindi-Urdu speaking populace of South Asia through British-style education.
What's in a name, then?😆
#pashto #pakhtoon #pashtun #afghan #pathaan #bollywoodmovies
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