India, Sept. 8 -- Pratik Gandhi recently led the patriotic series Saare Jahan Se Accha, which released around the Independence Day and focused on a spy's story during the Indo-Pak tensions in the '70s. The show came on the heels of the India-Pakistan war earlier this year and the actor agrees it made the promotions a bit challenging.

"We were very clear when we shot that it's not about jingoism. But the concern was definitely there when we started promoting it. When we got to know the release date, and whatever happened in the recent past, the context changed into the audience's mind," he says, adding, "That's when you have to be very careful when you talk about your project because you know that you have not shot it this way, you know t...