Budget: 50 crore PKR
Director: Hasan Waqas Rana
Production Company: Mindworks Media
Cast: Shaan Shahid, Humayun Saeed, Adnan Siddiqui, Sana Bucha, Ayesha Omar, Armeena Rana Khan and Umair Jaswal.
Based on a true story over 76 hours of a successful military operation conducted in the Parichar region of Swat district, Yalghaar – at face value – appears to be yet another movie that relies on extremism to establish its central plot. However, Bilal Ashraf – who is not only performing in the film but also multi-tasks as Visual Effects Director and COO of Mindworks Media (Mindworks also produced the record breaking Waar) – asserts that Yalghaar isn’t your ‘done and dusted’ action film bit by the militancy bug but rather a riveting yet emotional war epic.
Slated for January 2015 release.
Are we excited or are we excited?! I think I saw Humayun as a taleban with one eye somewhere, it was probably a still from Yalghaar.
**The set was so realistic, Ayesha tells me, that even the bats began to call it home! “Without revealing too much, I’ll just say that it was not all fun and games. It was hardcore, very dingy and dirty but that’s the environment we wanted.” ** So for six grueling days of shooting, she left herself go and would only experience luxury and comfort when she returned home to her bed. It’s hard for our actors to shake off their inhibitions while acting, certainly Pakistani girls who are expected to look and act a certain way. “We’ve grown up with this kind of conditioning,” Ayesha tells me, “And I had to break away from all that for the film and really had to stop caring about how I looked. Let’s hope it works!”
“I never thought I’d ever get into films. Especially the kind of local films that we grew up with!” says Ayesha. But with the revamping of Pakistani cinema, there are all sorts of people joining the industry armed with creativity, new ideas and new technologies. “We don’t know where cinema is headed and we don’t have an identity yet, so everyone is experimenting with what will work,” says Ayesha.
After a gap of more than one decade, Aashir Azeem, the famous police officer Azhar from PTV drama Dhuwan (1994) is now working as a security officer in upcoming film Yalghaar (Waar2). Here are few clicks from the sets of this film.
About Aashir Azeem: Aashir is a government officer. During his posting in Quetta in 1994, he wrote the drama Dhuwwan also playing the role of main protagonist. Dhuwwan can be termed as first action drama of Pakistan, proved a breath of fresh air for television viewers instantly claimed the title of an all time classic. Despite huge success Aashir never wrote/worked in any other drama serial though he did worked in few teleplays in past two decades. In January 2014, Aashir announced on his facebook page, by posting he is planning to produce a television drama, no further details are announced about this project.
I think I saw Humayun as a taleban with one eye somewhere, it was probably a still from Yalghaar.
