Rahama Sadau's appearance in a music video "hugging and
cuddling" Nigerian pop star Classiq offended some people.
Ms Sadau said sorry to those she upset, but said her actions
were "innocuous".
Hausa films are popular in the mostly Muslim northern Nigeria
where it is taboo for men and women to hold hands in public.
The industry, commonly known as Kannywood, has been under fire
from conservative Muslim clerics who accuse it of corrupting people's values.
The
Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria banned the actress from
Kannywood films, saying that her appearance in the video violated the
industry's code of ethics.
It added that it hoped the ban would serve as a deterrent to
other actors and actresses who are "expected to be good ambassadors of the
society they represent".
'Senseless abuse'
Ms Sadau said she took full responsibility for what happened, but argued
that she was behaving professionally and added that in her line of work
"innocuous touching with other people... is inevitable".
But
she reassured people that she would behave with decorum, adding: "I have
lines that I would never cross."
Responding to the criticism she has received she said people
should "be more tolerant and forgiving towards one another and to cease
all the senseless abuse, name calling and backbiting".
In it,
the Nigerian pop star is smitten with a vegetable seller in a market, acted by
Ms Sadau.
Initially, she rejects his advances, batting him away with a
bunch of vegetables, but he eventually wins her over.
They hold hands and engage in a bit of cuddling that would be
considered demure in a Western film.
But many people in northern Nigeria felt she had gone too far
with Classiq in the music video, reports the BBC's Isa Sanusi from the capital,
Abuja.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37551142
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