Muslims of India will only be considered to be doing well if they are governing Hindustan, like they did for a thousand years. Globally popular Muslim movie stars and sports persons representing India to the world just don't cut it.
Whenever SRK raises so much as an indirect whisper against hindutva, he is firmly put in his place with instant effect. This doesn't happen to Muslim actors in real democratic nations. SRK could not even dream of being proud of his Muslim Indian heritage or of being a Muslim because he knows the backlash he would face. The threat of hindutva backlash is not perceived but is evidence based from prior episodes.
Does Hinduism really insist that Muslims merge their faith and diminish its distinctiveness in order to be acceptable to the collective? I don't think so. I think hindutva does this, but not Hinduism.
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/...slim-my-wife-hindu-my-children-are-india/amp/
Why can't he simply say he's proud to be an Indian Muslim?
Why can't Saif Ali Khan call his son Timur without constant backlash against him?
Why are a segment of indians not taught to be proud of what the mughals or other Muslim conquerors achieved? It's a part of Indian history so sweeping it under a carpet simply exposes Indians to a charge of ignorance.
As for muslim sports stars in India, let me know when there is one. Azharuddin is not a sports star btw. Maybe Zaheer Khan was just about so I'll give you that one. So let's talk about him. By marrying a Hindu, he - like any Muslim Indian male marrying a Hindu female - immediately starts at a baseline judgement by Indian society. That baseline is that the marriage is an act of "love jihad" until proven otherwise. Now let us assume the wife converted to Islam for whatever damned reason of her choosing, as long as it was not under duress. Immediately, the husband has further incriminated himself under the charge of love jihad. Now in Z Khan's case, no such conversion occurred and yet, until he visited a temple and appeased his in-laws, the charge of love jihad stuck fast.
https://www.altnews.in/zaheer-khan-...anded-love-jihad-followers-zee-news-facebook/
Tell you what, let's imagine these visceral examples of the difficulties faced by muslim celebrities in India don't even exist. Let's start on a clean slate and assume the preconceptions don't exist as exemplified above. I'd hazard a guess that Muslims of India would settle for equal value attached to their lives, livelihoods, opportunities, religious practices, history, and contributions to India, without having it constantly rammed down their throats that they are guests of your country and hence should somehow be grateful for those rights.
Now I can't rewrite history, sadly. Some big people with significant influence are going to have to bite a big bullet and arrive at a state of internal reconciliation with the fact that India (by any definition of that word "India") is not a pure Hindu rashtra. Therefore the legacy of Muslims cannot be erased and this whole prism through which hindutva views India is inherently flawed and defective as a result of these irreconcilable facts. It is not an islamic state either obviously - if that is your understanding of the mughal era. Let it be a simple meritocracy, not a smash and grab to suit an invented narrative. Hindutva types, whether hard-core or sympathisers, will need to either confront this reality that India cannot become a Hindu dominant state as long as Indian Muslims exist, or accept my previously stated destructive course of events as inevitable in pursuit of a Hindu dominant rashtra.