NEW DELHI: Indian movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkil stalled in controversy for featuring Fawad Khan will be released in India as scheduled after an Indian film industry’s body agreed to implement ban on Pakistani actors in future. A hard-line Hindu nationalist party had threatened to attack cinemas that showed prominent Indian director Karan Johar´s film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, as tensions run high between Islamabad and New Delhi. But the Film and Television Producers Guild of India has now promised to bar Pakistani actors in future under a deal brokered between the sides on Saturday. The movie starring Pakistani heart-throb Fawad Khan is set for release next weekend, two days before Diwali – Hindus festival of lights – a major holiday in India. “In the larger interest of the sentiments of the people and the soldiers and the entire country, we will not work with any Pakistani artist in the future,” Indian guild president Mukesh Bhatt told reporters after the meeting. Indian film industry is the latest battleground for heightened tensions between nuclear-armed archrivals Pakistan and India. In a series of tit-for-tat moves in the entertainment industry, Pakistan has suspended screening all Indian movies until tensions calm, while Hindu nationalists in India have threatened violence at cinemas showing films with Pakistani actors. Under the deal, Karan Johar and his colleagues have agreed to contribute 50 million rupees ($747,220) to the Indian army as “penance” for casting a Pakistani actor in the first place. They have also agreed to run a tribute to the soldiers who were killed before the film starts, according to Raj Thackeray, head of the far-right regional party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena of India. The firebrand leader said protests against the Indian film have now been called off, but it was unclear if agreement was reached on his wider demand for all moviemakers to pay a penance if they had cast a Pakistani actor previously. The deal was struck at a meeting between Johar, the guild and Thackeray and brokered by Devendra Fadnavis, chief minister of Indian Maharashtra state. “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, which stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Ranbir Kapoor, will hit Indian theatres on October 28.