KARACHI: Upcoming Pakistani film Jalaibee has set a rather unique record. The yet-to-release movie has already made Rs5 million in advance ticket sales. During a press conference on Tuesday, founder and CEO of ARY Digital Salman Iqbal revealed that real estate tycoon Malik Riaz has purchased 10,000 tickets of Jalaibee for members of Bahria Town. “The film has already done a business of Rs5 million, two weeks prior to its release,” he said. Bahria Town residents however will need to register in order to avail the free tickets. Seems like the films producers are going all out in promoting their movie. Earlier, Jalaibee‘s distributor ARY Films, in collaboration with Malik Riaz, had announced that they would be offering gold worth the price of a ticket to anyone who will watch the film in Bahria Town cinemas. One of the highlights of the film is its versatile director Yasir Jaswal. The young writer-director spoke to The Express Tribune about his soon-to-be released film. “Jalaibee is a film about eight people and how their lives are intertwined after a sequence of events,” he said. “Two of the major characters in the film are Billu (Danish Taimoor) and Bugga (Ali Safina), friends who get entangled in a debt with the local mafia called The Unit,” Yasir said, specifying that a central theme of the film is greed and how it wields its sledgehammer on those involved. Initially expected to release during the summer of 2014, Jalaibee is now set to hit the cinemas on March 20. Explaining the reason for the delay, Yasir said, “The production team had run out of funds and the reason behind releasing the teaser was strategic. Wanting to get financers on board, we worked on the pre-production of the film quite extensively, which resulted in delay of the film’s release.” Jalaibee makes Rs5 million on the box office before release - The Express Tribune
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I hope it's as good as people are making out. Not really a fan of Danish Taimoor's wooden acting tbh.
However, Bol and Khuda Ke Liye were amazing! Pakistani movies are so underrated.
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If it proves itself to be half as good as "Namaloom Afraad", I will watch it twice.
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too bad it didn’t deserve a penny
Review: This Jalaibee is greasy not juicy - The Express Tribune
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Yai! Hopefully this will boost up the movie industry.
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Whether it's good or bad, Pakistan desperately needs more channels like ARY and people like Malik Riaz to market and promote Pakistani movies. Jalaibee might not be a great movie but I'm sure somewhere down the road we will see a gem.
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Jalaibee was not good. The movie had many mistakes. No power in the story, some actors acted very bad (specially Danish Taimoor and I thought that he has no ability to shout and someone forces him on gunpoint that shout loudly otherwise I will shoot u)
Ali Safina and Adnan Jaffer acted a little bit good.
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I couldnt stand that song.
What a dumb gana and even worse video
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How could this be possible, is it really true