Daira the film www.daira.info will be premiering on 17 May on GEO TV. It is based on the novel “Moth Smoke” by Mohsin Hamid.
Cast includes, Aijaz Aslam as Raider, Adnan Siddiqui as Ozi, Ayeshah Alam as Mumtaz, Aamir Abbas as Murad Badshah, and Shahzad Nawaz as Daru…
…Set in the summer of 1998, when Pakistan detonated its first nuclear weapons in an escalating test-for-test with India. Like the atoms that must be split for a fission bomb to explode, modern-day Lahore is itself divided: between old and new, rich and poor, conservative and liberal. Lost amid this fractured society is Daru, a young man fired from his job as a banker, whose two great passions are hash and his best friend Ozi’s wife, Mumtaz. Daru, an intellectual wastrel, has a kind of underworld existence; unable to afford electricity or air conditioning, he lives alone in sweltering darkness. Ozi and Mumtaz, in contrast, run with Lahore’s urban hip, the sushi-and-mobile-phone crowd.
We are told early on that Daru has killed a boy. But did he really do it? The discovery of the truth leads us along Daru’s downward flight from stability to desperation, from salaried banker to low-life addict. Daru is wracked by devastating hunger, for food and drugs as well as for the radiant Mumtaz. (Think Knut Hamsun writing Pakistani noir.) When Daru departs after a meal at his uncle’s house, he is consumed by the aroma of leftovers: “The smell makes me hungry even though I’ve just filled my stomach with as much as I thought it could hold … I wonder why my body has chosen this moment to give me such an appetite, when I can least afford it.” The food Daru has just consumed is a luxury beyond his means, as is Mumtaz, with her glamorous life of sleek cars and elite parties, though that doesn’t prevent him from pursuing her.
http://dir.salon.com/books/review/2000/01/06/hamid/index.html
Daira has a good soundtrack…
- Aamir Salem - Lahore
- Ahmed Jahanzeb - Aakhri Khayal
- Ahmed Jahanzeb - Aap Ki Yaad
- Ali Haider - Lust
- Bunny - Bhangra Is the King
- Fakhir Mehmood - Gham
- Hasan Jahangir - Pyar Deh
- Huma Khawaja - Naina
- Iyzak - Mard 3
- John Mall - Meetha Zehar
- Kiran Hasan - Love
- Lounge MIX - Mard 2
- Mehboob Khan - Shame Firaq
- Mizmaar - Saath
- Mohammad Ali - Waqt
- Mohd Aslam - Longing
- Nadeen Jaffery - Tanha
- Naeem Abbas Rufi - Mai Nee
- Najam Sheraz - Jaise Tu
- Saima Shirazi - Mard
- Salim Khawaja - Kangan
- Schehzad Mughal with Mohammad Ali - Waqt
- Shakila Khorasanee - Kya Huwa
- Sharique Roomi - Akali Raat
- Shehzad Roy - Daira
download the soundtrack from www.sangeetradio.com