Re: Lahore and films?
I'm actually talking about setting up new production companies in Karachi. Its metropolitan. Its more international. Its multi-ethnic, so you get an influence of all kinds of sub-ethnicities of Pakistan. Its got the conservative and modern both. Its just such a mixed salad of a city, that I can envisage more creative productions coming from there. Plus, anyone who sets up a production house there doesn't need to worry about pressure from the current Lollywood mafia.
I remember reading an interview on sameena peerzada, and she talked about how people in lahore really made her life difficult, because these other production crews were bullying her when she was doing that inteha movie of hers.
I'm sorry, I just can't relate to Pakistani films. They are so heavily dosed with Punjabi culture, that I get annoyed. How about representing MY background? How about making a movie that I can relate to? I don't live in a Punjabi village. I live in an international environment. I live in a multicultural environment. I live abroad. And I dont speak Punjabi and I dont have parathas for breakfast, and I dont wear those punjabi style ghagras to parties. And I dont fall in love with heroes who have laambi laambi moochay who carry around guns.
Its not punjabi bashing. Even many punjabis can't relate to these movies.